...ancestors had known her, I resolved that if France had Spain, it should not be Spain with the Indies. I CALLED THE NEW WORLD INTO EXISTENCE TO REDRESS THE BALANCE OF THE OLD." This speech, as has been said of the eloquence of Chatham, " was an era in the Senate." The effect was tremendous....

...fell into the hands of France, it would not be the " Spain with the Indies," because, said he, " I calle'd the new world into existence, to redress the balance of the old." This egotistical flourish was successful. It covered the movement of the allies against constitutional liberty...

...impossible the vain-glorious boast in which he afterwards summed up his Spanish policy, that " he had called the new world into existence to redress the balance of the old." This recognition Mr. Canning refused, not only because it ran counter to the object he hoped to attain,...

...was hard to say whether the cheers of the House of Commons were loudest when Mr. Canning announced, in his opening speech, the departure of the British...prevail, or on his reply, when he declared that when Franco made one aggression on Spain he determined that England should make another, and that "he called...

...was hard to say whether the cheers of the House of Commons were loudest when Mr Canning announced, in his opening speech, the departure of the British...called the new world into existence to redress the balance of the old." 56. This warlike interlude interrupted only for a very short period the fixed...

...ancestors had known her, I resolved that if France had Spain it should not be Spain with the Indies. I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old." This was exactly what Canning had done. The famous Monroe doctrine which has sometimes been criticised very...

...George Canning, then prime minister of England, made the proud statement in the House of Commons : "I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old." This striking sentence, pronounced as it was by one of the greatest figures which the English parliamentary...

...George Canning, then Prime Minister of England, made the proud statement in the House of Commons: "I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old." This striking sentence, pronounced as it was by one of the greatest figures which the English Parliamentary...

...George Canning, then Prime Minister of England, made the proud statement in the House of Commons: "I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old." This striking sentence, pronounced as it was by one of the greatest figures which the English Parliamentary...

...ancestors had known her, I resolved that if France had Spain, it should not be Spain ' with the Indies.' I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old." This passage occurs not in a cool diplomatic dispatch, but in a parliamentary speech, where overstatement...