History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles: 1713-1783J. Murray, 1838 - Great Britain |
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... write books by the square foot , but who seeks only , and we think successfully , to convey in plain and concise language his instructions " briefly and cheaply to the poor will - making or administering mortality . ” — ATHENÆUM ...
... write books by the square foot , but who seeks only , and we think successfully , to convey in plain and concise language his instructions " briefly and cheaply to the poor will - making or administering mortality . ” — ATHENÆUM ...
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... write a submissive letter to the King ; Stanhope induced His Majesty to receive it favour- ably a meeting ensued , and ... writes to James , that , though the reconciliation is far from sincere , it will by degrees become so , or that at ...
... write a submissive letter to the King ; Stanhope induced His Majesty to receive it favour- ably a meeting ensued , and ... writes to James , that , though the reconciliation is far from sincere , it will by degrees become so , or that at ...
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... 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 profitable to the latter , who contrived to throw off ...
... 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 profitable to the latter , who contrived to throw off ...
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... writes like a man bewildered with the most passionate love : - " To my dearest , dearest Lady Marlborough alone I could open the inmost 66 66 thoughts of my loaded heart , and by her exalted " wisdom find relief ! ...... Whither to go ...
... writes like a man bewildered with the most passionate love : - " To my dearest , dearest Lady Marlborough alone I could open the inmost 66 66 thoughts of my loaded heart , and by her exalted " wisdom find relief ! ...... Whither to go ...
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... writes Bishop Atterbury , " which can reach the " ears of a good Englishman . " * Lord Oxford also was consulted as to the number and rank of the per- sons who should be invited as witnesses on this so- lemn occasion . † At length on ...
... writes Bishop Atterbury , " which can reach the " ears of a good Englishman . " * Lord Oxford also was consulted as to the number and rank of the per- sons who should be invited as witnesses on this so- lemn occasion . † At length on ...
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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.