the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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George Canning : Epitaph: George Charles Canning

'Lines on the Death of the Hon. G.C. Canning' 'Though short thy span of Heaven's unimpeached decrees...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Beanlands group     

George Canning : [Canning's letter to newspapers attavking an anonymous pamphleteer (John Cam Hobhouse, it transpired), who had attacked him]

'My astonishment was very great at readind Canning's challenge to the anonymous pamphleteer. If it were the first proof of the kind it would be sufficient to create a general distrust of his sense, prudence and capacity for action... What does a politician know of his trade, when twenty years have not made him pamphlet-proof?'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith      Print: Newspaper

George Canning : [Speeches]

'He read — Sterne, Sydney Smith's letters, Canning's speeches, and two thrillers: A. E. W. Mason's Konigsmarch and Michael Innes's Lament for a Maker ...'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buchan      Print: Book

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