History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles: 1713-1783J. Murray, 1838 - Great Britain |
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... least the appearances and consequences of it will be the same as if it really were . " I think myself obliged , " he adds , " to represent this melancholy truth , that there 66 may be no expectation of any thing from hence , " which ...
... least the appearances and consequences of it will be the same as if it really were . " I think myself obliged , " he adds , " to represent this melancholy truth , that there 66 may be no expectation of any thing from hence , " which ...
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... least in a fair way of being " so , we were not to expect to make the figure we " formerly had ! Nay , further , I said , till this was " done , we could not , properly speaking , call our- " selves a nation ! " At length , after some ...
... least in a fair way of being " so , we were not to expect to make the figure we " formerly had ! Nay , further , I said , till this was " done , we could not , properly speaking , call our- " selves a nation ! " At length , after some ...
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... Lord Stair's apologetic letters in the Hardwicke State Papers , vol . ii . pp . 603–615 . § Hardwicke State Papers , vol . ii . p . 521 . XI . disgrace , or at least out of employment 12 HISTORY OF ENGLAND Quarrel between him and Lord ...
... Lord Stair's apologetic letters in the Hardwicke State Papers , vol . ii . pp . 603–615 . § Hardwicke State Papers , vol . ii . p . 521 . XI . disgrace , or at least out of employment 12 HISTORY OF ENGLAND Quarrel between him and Lord ...
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1713-1783 Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope. XI . disgrace , or at least out of employment , for twenty CHAP . years . In 1733 , we find Horace Walpole write of him as one " whose haughty intriguing character " has drawn upon him the ...
1713-1783 Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope. XI . disgrace , or at least out of employment , for twenty CHAP . years . In 1733 , we find Horace Walpole write of him as one " whose haughty intriguing character " has drawn upon him the ...
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... least , of the Whigs , have adhered to their other chiefs ? Was it not his evident policy , instead of hurling down the objects of popular outcry , to be- friend them in their inevitable fall , and then quietly to step into their places ...
... least , of the Whigs , have adhered to their other chiefs ? Was it not his evident policy , instead of hurling down the objects of popular outcry , to be- friend them in their inevitable fall , and then quietly to step into their places ...
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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.