Britons in Poland

Opis książki:

Colłection of articles, essays, book extracts, letters, memoirs, speeches, poems, on different aspects of Polish politics, history, culture, and British-Polish relations, written and delivered by important British politicians, political writers, poets from 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, including Lord Acton, Arthur Balfour, Henry Brougham, Edmund Burkę, Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Campbell, Richard Cobden, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Dudley Coutts Stuart, Benjamin Disraeli, Robert Cutlar Fergusson, Charles James Fox, John Pope Hennessy, John Keats, Walter Savage Landor, Lord Palmerston, and Lord Salisbury.

"The present violent dismemberment and partition of Poland, without the pretence of war, or even the colour of right, is to be considered as the first very great breach in the modern political system of Europę. It is not (say the politicians of the continent) sapping by degrees the constitution of our great western repubłic, it is laying the axe at once to the root, in such a manner as threatens the total overthrow of the whole". Edmund Burkę

"Sińce that Partition, let us recollect what has occurred in Europę. The greatest events which have ever happened in Europę have happened sińce the Partition of Poland. The whole of the French Revolution, and all those immense results which flowed from that great ebullition, have sińce then occurred. Sińce then there has appeared a character on the European stage who alone in modern times could be classed with the Alexanders and the Caesars of antiąuity. All the boundaries of the kingdoms which existed when Poland was partitioned have been altered; the laws of almost every country in Europę have been remodelled; new codes have been introduced; and new Governments called into being. In short, greater and morę numerous changes have occurred in the eighty years sińce that event than were probably ever before crowded into any similar period of the history of mań". Benjamin Disraeli

Książka "Britons in Poland" - Jacek Kloczkowski - oprawa miękka - Wydawnictwo Ośrodek Myśli Politycznej. Książka posiada 447 stron i została wydana w 2021 r.