History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles: 1713-1783J. Murray, 1838 - Great Britain |
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... believe , will own , that if they had " carried the scheme upon their last proposals , they could not have succeeded ; and I will show 66 your Lordships , from what they have done since , " that they would have acted in the same manner ...
... believe , will own , that if they had " carried the scheme upon their last proposals , they could not have succeeded ; and I will show 66 your Lordships , from what they have done since , " that they would have acted in the same manner ...
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... His wife continued to speculate a little longer on her own account . § Mr. Drummond to Mr. D. Pulteney , November 24. 1720 . ( Coxe's Walpole . ) CHAP . hend , I believe , might also be с 2 FROM THE PEACE OF UTRECHT . 19 It becomes a crash.
... His wife continued to speculate a little longer on her own account . § Mr. Drummond to Mr. D. Pulteney , November 24. 1720 . ( Coxe's Walpole . ) CHAP . hend , I believe , might also be с 2 FROM THE PEACE OF UTRECHT . 19 It becomes a crash.
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1713-1783 Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope. CHAP . hend , I believe , might also be excepted . But the XI . public indignation was pointed chiefly against Sir 1720. John Blunt as projector , and against Sunderland and Aislabie as ...
1713-1783 Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope. CHAP . hend , I believe , might also be excepted . But the XI . public indignation was pointed chiefly against Sir 1720. John Blunt as projector , and against Sunderland and Aislabie as ...
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... believe , unfounded . The charge rested entirely on hearsay testimony , on words which Sir John Blunt said that Knight had said to him : there was collateral evi- dence to shake it ; and the character of Blunt him- * To Lord Midleton ...
... believe , unfounded . The charge rested entirely on hearsay testimony , on words which Sir John Blunt said that Knight had said to him : there was collateral evi- dence to shake it ; and the character of Blunt him- * To Lord Midleton ...
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... believe that so cool and cautious a statesman could have sup- ported this violent and unconstitutional scheme . Be this as it may , the scheme , if ever entertained , was soon relinquished ; the Parliament met again for a very short and ...
... believe that so cool and cautious a statesman could have sup- ported this violent and unconstitutional scheme . Be this as it may , the scheme , if ever entertained , was soon relinquished ; the Parliament met again for a very short and ...
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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.