History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles: 1713-1783J. Murray, 1838 - Great Britain |
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... brought under the notice of the public , a work wherein may be found information on all subjects , entirely to be relied upon , cannot fail to become extensively popular . This work is , in fact , intended to be a condensed and improved ...
... brought under the notice of the public , a work wherein may be found information on all subjects , entirely to be relied upon , cannot fail to become extensively popular . This work is , in fact , intended to be a condensed and improved ...
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... brought into a concert of measures and the an- cient alliance renewed with the Dutch . In the North , the confederacy against Sweden had been successfully broken ; Prussians , Danes , and Poles were disarmed ; and the languid ...
... brought into a concert of measures and the an- cient alliance renewed with the Dutch . In the North , the confederacy against Sweden had been successfully broken ; Prussians , Danes , and Poles were disarmed ; and the languid ...
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... brought forward Scrip- ture on all occasions , immediately quoted Solomon's judgment , and added , " No , Sir , we will never " divide the child ! " Thus then the South Sea Bill proceeded through the House of Commons without any further ...
... brought forward Scrip- ture on all occasions , immediately quoted Solomon's judgment , and added , " No , Sir , we will never " divide the child ! " Thus then the South Sea Bill proceeded through the House of Commons without any further ...
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... brought up to London . In vain were the goldsmiths applied to , with whom large quantities of stock were pawned : most of them broke or fled . In vain was Walpole sum- moned from Houghton to use his influence with the Bank ; for that ...
... brought up to London . In vain were the goldsmiths applied to , with whom large quantities of stock were pawned : most of them broke or fled . In vain was Walpole sum- moned from Houghton to use his influence with the Bank ; for that ...
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... brought forward his remedy . He had first desired the House to decide whether or not the public contracts with the South Sea Company should be preserved inviolate . This being carried by a large majority , Walpole then un- folded his ...
... brought forward his remedy . He had first desired the House to decide whether or not the public contracts with the South Sea Company should be preserved inviolate . This being carried by a large majority , Walpole then un- folded his ...
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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.