Quotation by George Canning

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A Political Despatch Canning's Rhyming "Dispatch" to Sir Charles Bagot Sir Harry Poland (1905)The New Morality (1798)

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Give me th' avowed, th' erect, the manly foe,
Bold I can meet—perhaps may turn his blow;
But of all plagues, good Heav'n, thy wrath can send,
Save, save, oh! save me from the Candid Friend.

George Canning

George Canning (1770–1827), British statesman, prime minister. The New Morality, l. 207-10 (1798).

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