History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles: 1713-1783J. Murray, 1838 - Great Britain |
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... CHAP . President of the Council ; while Methuen was XI . satisfied with an office in the Royal Household . * Their support , accordingly , was by no means warm and willing ; they were treated as inferiors , and , of course , behaved as ...
... CHAP . President of the Council ; while Methuen was XI . satisfied with an office in the Royal Household . * Their support , accordingly , was by no means warm and willing ; they were treated as inferiors , and , of course , behaved as ...
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... CHAP . in other matters , fell far short of the ministerial promises and of the public expectation . Instead of a free trade , or any approach to a free trade , with the American colonies , the Court of Madrid granted only , besides the ...
... CHAP . in other matters , fell far short of the ministerial promises and of the public expectation . Instead of a free trade , or any approach to a free trade , with the American colonies , the Court of Madrid granted only , besides the ...
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... CHAP . vantageous terms , and that therefore the affair might safely be left to private adjustment . " Nor , " says Aislabie , " would the South Sea Company " submit to be controlled in an undertaking they 66 were to pay so dear for ...
... CHAP . vantageous terms , and that therefore the affair might safely be left to private adjustment . " Nor , " says Aislabie , " would the South Sea Company " submit to be controlled in an undertaking they 66 were to pay so dear for ...
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... CHAP . XI . being the feeling , not merely of the ministerial party , but of most of their opponents , it seems scarcely 1720 . just to cast the blame of the general delusion on the Ministers alone , and to speak of them as deaf to ...
... CHAP . XI . being the feeling , not merely of the ministerial party , but of most of their opponents , it seems scarcely 1720 . just to cast the blame of the general delusion on the Ministers alone , and to speak of them as deaf to ...
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... CHAP . years . In 1733 , we find Horace Walpole write of him as one " whose haughty intriguing character " has drawn upon him the displeasure of the 66 King . ' " " * The connection of Law with the French Go- vernment was very ...
... CHAP . years . In 1733 , we find Horace Walpole write of him as one " whose haughty intriguing character " has drawn upon him the displeasure of the 66 King . ' " " * The connection of Law with the French Go- vernment was very ...
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66 CHAP affairs afterwards answer appeared Bill Bishop Atterbury Bolingbroke Carteret Chesterfield Church cloth lettered Court Coxe's Walpole death declared DISM Duchess of Kendal Duke of Newcastle Duke of Wharton Earl Edition Emperor England English Excise favour Fleury foreign France friends George Gibraltar Government hand Hanover Hist honour hopes Horace Walpole House of Commons Inverness Jacobites James King King's Lady less Lockhart Lord Midleton Lord Townshend Madame de Prie Madrid Majesty Memoirs ment METHO minister nation never observed occasion opposition Ostend Company Paris Parliament party passed persons Pope present Pretender Prince proposed Pulteney qu'il Queen received Ripperda Royal says scarcely Schaub scheme Secretary seems sent Sir Robert Sir William Wyndham South Sea South Sea Company Spain Spanish speech spirit Sunderland Swift thing thought Tories treaty treaty of Hanover TURE Vienna Walpole's Wesley Whigs William Stanhope writes Wyndham
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Page 346 - ... their manner of writing is very peculiar, being neither from the left to the right, like the Europeans ; nor from the right to the left, like the Arabians ; nor from up to down, like the Chinese ; but aslant, from one corner of the paper to the other, like ladies in England.