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Page 217
... Bute ; and the only good managers of revenue we have seen are Lord Despenser and Mr. George Grenville ; and under the description of men of virtue and ability , he holds them out to us as the only persons fit to put our affairs in order ...
... Bute ; and the only good managers of revenue we have seen are Lord Despenser and Mr. George Grenville ; and under the description of men of virtue and ability , he holds them out to us as the only persons fit to put our affairs in order ...
Page 287
... Lord Bute and Lord Despenser . But to the latter , this is , I sup- pose , but a civility to old acquaintance : to the former , a little stroke of politics . We may therefore fairly say , that our only hope is his life ; and he has , to ...
... Lord Bute and Lord Despenser . But to the latter , this is , I sup- pose , but a civility to old acquaintance : to the former , a little stroke of politics . We may therefore fairly say , that our only hope is his life ; and he has , to ...
Page 303
... into the hands of three ministers of his recommendation ; Mr. Grenville , the Earl of Egremont , and the Earl of Halifax . This arrangement , notwithstand- ing the retirement of Lord Bute , announced to the STATE OF THE NATION . 303.
... into the hands of three ministers of his recommendation ; Mr. Grenville , the Earl of Egremont , and the Earl of Halifax . This arrangement , notwithstand- ing the retirement of Lord Bute , announced to the STATE OF THE NATION . 303.
Page 304
Edmund Burke. ing the retirement of Lord Bute , announced to the public a continuance of the same measures ; nor was there more reason to expect a change from the death of the Earl of Egremont . The Earl of Sandwich supplied his place ...
Edmund Burke. ing the retirement of Lord Bute , announced to the public a continuance of the same measures ; nor was there more reason to expect a change from the death of the Earl of Egremont . The Earl of Sandwich supplied his place ...
Page 375
... Lord Bute , but from the circumstances which favored it , and from an indifference to the constitution which had been for some time growing among our gentry . We should have been tried with it , if the Earl of Bute had never existed ...
... Lord Bute , but from the circumstances which favored it , and from an indifference to the constitution which had been for some time growing among our gentry . We should have been tried with it , if the Earl of Bute had never existed ...
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