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Page 423 - Her Majesty's Government can see no sufficient ground for the severe censure with which Austria, France, Prussia, and Russia have visited the acts of the King of Sardinia. Her Majesty's Government will turn their eyes rather to the gratifying prospect of a people building up the edifice of their liberties, and consolidating the work of their independence, amid the sympathies and good wishes of Europe.
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Page 424 - he shouted, rubbed his hands, jumped up, sat down again, then he began to think, and when he looked up, tears were standing in his eyes. Behind your despatch (Hudson wrote Lord John) "he saw the Italy of his dreams, the Italy of his hopes, the Italy of his policy.
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| Title | The Life and Times of Cavour, Volume 2 Riverside popular biographies The Life and Times of Cavour, William Roscoe Thayer |
| Author | William Roscoe Thayer |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin, 1911 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Apr 10, 2006 |
| ISBN | 0722224389, 9780722224380 |
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