George Canning
George Canning
George Canning, FRS,was a British statesman and Tory politician who served in various senior cabinet positions under numerous Prime Ministers, before himself serving as Prime Minister for the final four months of his life...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth11 April 1770
keen nor white
And finds, with keen discriminating sight, / Black's not so black; - nor white so very white.
cant comparison draw harness horses idle measures men
Away with the cant of ''Measures, not men!'' / the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.
thee whom wrongs
I give thee sixpence! I will see thee damned first - / Wretch! whom no sense of wrongs can rouse to vengeance; / Sordid, unfeeling, reprobate, degraded, / Spiritless outcast!
bold candid friends-or-friendship good manly oh perhaps save thy turn wrath
Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, bold I can meet, perhaps may turn his blow! But of all plagues, good Heavens, thy wrath can send, save, save, oh save me from the candid friend!
failure decision parent
Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.
sublime facts knows
There is nothing I know of so sublime as a fact.