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... course , but not worse than the tragedies of Hayley . It is in some respects highly curious . There is no love . The whole plot is political ; and it is remarkable that the interest , such as it is , turns on a contest about a Regency ...
... course , but not worse than the tragedies of Hayley . It is in some respects highly curious . There is no love . The whole plot is political ; and it is remarkable that the interest , such as it is , turns on a contest about a Regency ...
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... course , he told me that he ventured on one occasion to ask Mr. Pitt by what means he had acquired his ad- mirable readiness of speech - his aptness of finding the right word without pause or hesitation . Mr. Pitt replied that whatever ...
... course , he told me that he ventured on one occasion to ask Mr. Pitt by what means he had acquired his ad- mirable readiness of speech - his aptness of finding the right word without pause or hesitation . Mr. Pitt replied that whatever ...
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... course of lectures on Quintilian . But his health at this period gave cause for great alarm . From a boy he had shot up far too rapidly to a tall , lank stripling , with no corresponding development of breadth and muscle . In the first ...
... course of lectures on Quintilian . But his health at this period gave cause for great alarm . From a boy he had shot up far too rapidly to a tall , lank stripling , with no corresponding development of breadth and muscle . In the first ...
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... course in poli- tics , and there seemed every probability that the confidence between them would through life continue unimpaired . In the spring of 1776 , and at the age of seventeen , Mr. Pitt was admitted to the Degree of Master of ...
... course in poli- tics , and there seemed every probability that the confidence between them would through life continue unimpaired . In the spring of 1776 , and at the age of seventeen , Mr. Pitt was admitted to the Degree of Master of ...
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... course of this time , " adds his tutor , " I never knew him spend an idle day , nor did he ever fail to attend me at the appointed hour . " In It was during these graduate years at Pembroke Hall that Mr. Pitt laid in his principal ...
... course of this time , " adds his tutor , " I never knew him spend an idle day , nor did he ever fail to attend me at the appointed hour . " In It was during these graduate years at Pembroke Hall that Mr. Pitt laid in his principal ...
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