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... Royal Prerogative - Pitt appointed Prime Minister - Resignation of Lord Temple - The new Cabinet CHAPTER V. 1784 . Page 129 Difficulties of Pitt's position - His India Bill — His public spirit - Fox's popularity declines - Proceedings ...
... Royal Prerogative - Pitt appointed Prime Minister - Resignation of Lord Temple - The new Cabinet CHAPTER V. 1784 . Page 129 Difficulties of Pitt's position - His India Bill — His public spirit - Fox's popularity declines - Proceedings ...
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... Royal Speech . The Ministers were grievously depressed , while their opponents gathered strength and energy in the same proportion . Address , an amendment was moved by Fox , and and Burke put forth all their powers of debate . next day ...
... Royal Speech . The Ministers were grievously depressed , while their opponents gathered strength and energy in the same proportion . Address , an amendment was moved by Fox , and and Burke put forth all their powers of debate . next day ...
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... was in their opinion near its close . The cause of this new entanglement was George Prince of Wales , afterwards King George the Fourth . In his education he had received from his Royal parents 122 LIFE OF PITT . CHAP . III .
... was in their opinion near its close . The cause of this new entanglement was George Prince of Wales , afterwards King George the Fourth . In his education he had received from his Royal parents 122 LIFE OF PITT . CHAP . III .
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... Royal parents an excellent example of a moral life , but he had by no means adopted that example as his own . On the con- trary , as Horace Walpole once remarked , he came forth from that Temple of Virtue , his father's palace , as ...
... Royal parents an excellent example of a moral life , but he had by no means adopted that example as his own . On the con- trary , as Horace Walpole once remarked , he came forth from that Temple of Virtue , his father's palace , as ...
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... Royal Highness of Wales being assured that he should not be able to prevail in his pretension , was induced to release his friends from their engagement . With a calmer temper on each side , the business was soon adjusted . It was ...
... Royal Highness of Wales being assured that he should not be able to prevail in his pretension , was induced to release his friends from their engagement . With a calmer temper on each side , the business was soon adjusted . It was ...
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