History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles: 1713-1783J. Murray, 1838 - Great Britain |
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... soon be excited by them . We had almost forgotten that which it would be most unjust to forget , the delicacy and accuracy with which the plates to the work are executed . But it is enough to say that they are from the burin of Mr. and ...
... soon be excited by them . We had almost forgotten that which it would be most unjust to forget , the delicacy and accuracy with which the plates to the work are executed . But it is enough to say that they are from the burin of Mr. and ...
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... soon feels as if his instructor were a good - natured and entertaining friend . In conclusion , let us warmly congratulate him on having completed his Herculean task , -a task which few men except himself would have had the courage to ...
... soon feels as if his instructor were a good - natured and entertaining friend . In conclusion , let us warmly congratulate him on having completed his Herculean task , -a task which few men except himself would have had the courage to ...
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... soon as the whole work is in that state of forwardness which will insure its uniform and satisfactory completion , in a reasonable time from the commencement of its publication . A DICTIONARY OF SCIENCE , LITERATURE , AND ART ...
... soon as the whole work is in that state of forwardness which will insure its uniform and satisfactory completion , in a reasonable time from the commencement of its publication . A DICTIONARY OF SCIENCE , LITERATURE , AND ART ...
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... soon dis- turbed . Their first annual ship , the Royal Prince , did not sail till 1717 , and next year broke out the war with Spain ; when , as I have already had occa- sion to relate , Alberoni , in defiance of the treaty , seized all ...
... soon dis- turbed . Their first annual ship , the Royal Prince , did not sail till 1717 , and next year broke out the war with Spain ; when , as I have already had occa- sion to relate , Alberoni , in defiance of the treaty , seized all ...
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... soon became general : it rose to its greatest height about December , 1719 ; and the " actions , " or shares , of the new Company sold for more than twenty times their original value . The Rue Quincampoix , the chief scene of this ...
... soon became general : it rose to its greatest height about December , 1719 ; and the " actions , " or shares , of the new Company sold for more than twenty times their original value . The Rue Quincampoix , the chief scene of this ...
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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.