George Canning/ambassador To Lisbon - 1814%e2%80%931816

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“She loved Cecil; George made her nervous; will the reader explain to her that the phrases should have been reversed?”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)

“A steady patriot of the world alone,
The friend of every country but his own.”
—George Canning (1770–1827)

“An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)