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... brothers , until the time when his eldest brother became his Cabinet colleague . The letters addressed to him by the Bishop himself , and by several other personal friends , have also been removed . On the other hand , there still ...
... brothers , until the time when his eldest brother became his Cabinet colleague . The letters addressed to him by the Bishop himself , and by several other personal friends , have also been removed . On the other hand , there still ...
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... brothers had gone with Mr. Wilson for the sake of sea - bathing to Lyme . There Hayley the poet became well acquainted with them . In his Memoirs he describes William Pitt as wonderful boy of fourteen , who eclipsed his brother in ...
... brothers had gone with Mr. Wilson for the sake of sea - bathing to Lyme . There Hayley the poet became well acquainted with them . In his Memoirs he describes William Pitt as wonderful boy of fourteen , who eclipsed his brother in ...
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... brothers and sisters , and the spectators were only their parents , with Lord and Lady Stanhope , and a very few other family friends . The manuscript of this play is still preserved at Chevening . I showed it to Lord Macaulay in one of ...
... brothers and sisters , and the spectators were only their parents , with Lord and Lady Stanhope , and a very few other family friends . The manuscript of this play is still preserved at Chevening . I showed it to Lord Macaulay in one of ...
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... brother , walked as the chief mourner , supported on one side by Lord Mahon , and on the other by Thomas Pitt of Boconnoc , the head of the Pitt family . Late the same afternoon we find him write as follows from Lord Mahon's house in ...
... brother , walked as the chief mourner , supported on one side by Lord Mahon , and on the other by Thomas Pitt of Boconnoc , the head of the Pitt family . Late the same afternoon we find him write as follows from Lord Mahon's house in ...
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... brother to maintain — and no more than maintain - the family honours . His mother also was in comfortable circum- stances , from the receipt of the pension of 30007 . granted in 1761 for three lives ; although , as appears from many ...
... brother to maintain — and no more than maintain - the family honours . His mother also was in comfortable circum- stances , from the receipt of the pension of 30007 . granted in 1761 for three lives ; although , as appears from many ...
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