Speech on Conciliation with AmericaGinn & Company; Atheneum Press, 1897 - 152 страници |
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... Third in the Four Georges , and on Hogarth , Smollett , Fielding , Sterne and Goldsmith in the English Humorists . Leslie Stephen's History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century treats more particularly the intellectual side of ...
... Third in the Four Georges , and on Hogarth , Smollett , Fielding , Sterne and Goldsmith in the English Humorists . Leslie Stephen's History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century treats more particularly the intellectual side of ...
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... Third , London , 1840-45 , but Fiske is followed most closely . 2 See 39 10 , note . 8 Fiske , I , 3 . 4 33 11 , note ; also Adolphus , II , 102 , 103 . The ill feeling was further inflamed by the attitude of INTRODUCTION . xiii.
... Third , London , 1840-45 , but Fiske is followed most closely . 2 See 39 10 , note . 8 Fiske , I , 3 . 4 33 11 , note ; also Adolphus , II , 102 , 103 . The ill feeling was further inflamed by the attitude of INTRODUCTION . xiii.
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... Third came to the throne in 1760 , he found his authority scarcely more than nominal ; for upon the ex- pulsion of James the Second in 1688 , the Tories had sullenly left the government to the Whigs , and the latter so distrusted royal ...
... Third came to the throne in 1760 , he found his authority scarcely more than nominal ; for upon the ex- pulsion of James the Second in 1688 , the Tories had sullenly left the government to the Whigs , and the latter so distrusted royal ...
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... Third was even more nakedly set forth when Parliament suspended the assem- bly of New York for refusal to provide certain supplies for the army . It is true that in 1769 Parliament repealed all the duties except that on tea , but ...
... Third was even more nakedly set forth when Parliament suspended the assem- bly of New York for refusal to provide certain supplies for the army . It is true that in 1769 Parliament repealed all the duties except that on tea , but ...
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... third - rate position mentioned above . At this exclusion he seems to have been bitterly mortified , for thirteen years later he wrote : " There were few indeed that did not at that time acknowledge . . . that no man in the kingdom ...
... third - rate position mentioned above . At this exclusion he seems to have been bitterly mortified , for thirteen years later he wrote : " There were few indeed that did not at that time acknowledge . . . that no man in the kingdom ...
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