 | Nathaniel Wright Stephenson - 1918 - 332 oldal
...Mr. Adams, speaking of the posible sailing of the ships, made a remark destined to become famous : " It would be superfluous in me to point out to your lordship that this is war." At last, the authorities were satisfied. The ships were seized and in the end bought for the British... | |
 | Nathaniel Wright Stephenson - 1918 - 316 oldal
...Mr. Adams, speaking of the possible sailing of the ships, made a remark destined to become famous: "It would be superfluous in me to point out to your lordship that this is war." At last, the authorities were satisfied. The ships were seized and in the end bought for the British... | |
 | John Bassett Moore - 1918 - 506 oldal
...could quietly say to Earl Russell, with reference to the apprehended escape of " Lairds' Ironclads," "It would be superfluous in me to point out to your lordship that this is war," it is obvious that Mr. Robinson was a man of fancy, 287 though tastes will necessarily differ as to... | |
 | Edward Waldo Emerson - 1918 - 752 oldal
...Russell the dispatch which contained the words, better remembered than any in our diplomatic history, " It would be superfluous in me to point out to your lordship that this is war." This dispatch was sent on September 5, 1863, and the Morning Post of September 8 announced that the... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1918 - 548 oldal
...closed by leaving him loaded with connivance in the rebel armaments, and ended by the famous sentence: "It would be superfluous in me to point out to your lordship that this is war!" What the Minister meant by this remark was his own affair; what the private secretary understood by... | |
 | Nathaniel Wright Stephenson - 1918 - 340 oldal
...Mr. Adams, speaking of the possible sailing of the ships, made a remark destined to become famous: "It would be superfluous in me to point out to your lordship that this is war." At last, the authorities were satisfied. The ships were seized and in the end bought for the British... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1918 - 538 oldal
...closed by leaving him loaded with connivance in the rebel armaments, and ended by the famous sentence: "It would be superfluous in me to point out to your lordship that this is warl " What the Minister meant by this remark was his own affair; what the private secretary understood... | |
 | William Roscoe Thayer - 1919 - 364 oldal
...Charles Francis Adams, our Minister in London, to Lord John Russell, the British Foreign Secretary: "It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war." Earl Russell understood. He and Adams both knew the language which men use when they mean what they... | |
 | North Carolina Literary and Historical Association - 1919 - 172 oldal
...of the British Government as by the wise courage of our minister, Adams, who wrote to Earl Russell : "It would be superfluous in me to point out to your lordship that this is war." But, in spite of all these delinquencies and blunders, the fact remains that Confederate diplomacy... | |
 | Hilton Proctor Goss - 1955 - 334 oldal
...Russell's order, protested to Russell. MINISTER ADAMS' NOTE TO EARL RUSSELL, LONDON, SEPTEMBER 5, 1863: ... It would be superfluous in me to point out to your lordship that this is war. No matter what may be the theory adopted of neutrality in a struggle, when this process is carried... | |
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It would be superfluous in me to point out to your lordship that this is war. 
