Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

The Principal Speeches and Addresses of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort

Two editions of the Prince Consort’s Speeches were published by the Society of Arts in 1857; and cheap editions of the same collection have been published since the Prince’s death.

Chapters

2. Part 2

[Sidenote: The Prince’s careful preparation of his speeches.] The foregoing are some of the principal characteristics of the Prince’s speeches. It remains only to be said that h...

7. Part 7

Wherever Englishmen meet at a public dinner they make it their pride to take no proceedings without first drinking to the health of “The Queen.” The Corporation of the Trinity H...

3. Part 3

[Sidenote: The Prince’s care for the poorer classes.] It was with a feeling similar to that expressed in the foregoing passage that the Prince would comment, for instance, upon...

9. Part 9

We have met to-day in the sacred cause of Education—of National Education. This word, which means no less than the moral and intellectual development of the rising generation, a...

6. Part 6

It must be an additional source of gratification to me to find, that part of the funds rendered available for the support of this undertaking should be the ancient grant which,...

5. Part 5

We have been laying the foundation not only of a Dock, as a place of refuge, safety, and refitment for mercantile shipping, and calculated even to receive the largest steamers i...

8. Part 8

The cordial reception I have met with from you demands my warmest acknowledgments. You only, I assure you, do me justice in giving me credit for a deep interest in whatever may...

12. Part 12

Gentlemen,—The standing toast, after that of the Royal Family, at all our public dinners, is “The Army and Navy;” and it is never given without calling forth proud and grateful...

4. Part 4

On the death of Sir J. Macdonald, the Adjutant-General, in March, 1850, a suggestion was made to amalgamate the two offices of Adjutant and Quartermaster-General under a single...

11. Part 11

The impediments to the general progress of Science, the removal of which I have indicated as one of the tasks which the Association has set for itself, are of various kinds. If...

1. Part 1

Two editions of the Prince Consort’s Speeches were published by the Society of Arts in 1857; and cheap editions of the same collection have been published since the Prince’s death.

10. Part 10

The Association meets for the first time to-day in these regions and in this ancient and interesting city. The poet, in his works of fiction, has to choose, and anxiously to wei...

13. Part 13

One of the most useful results of the labours of the Congress has been the common agreement of all States to inquire into the causes of every death, and to return the deaths fro...