Biographical, Literary, and Political Anecdotes of Several of the Most Eminent Persons of the Present Age. Never Before Printed: With an Appendix Consisting of Original, Explanatory, and Scarce Papers, Том 1T. N. Longman, and L. B. Seeley, in Pater-Noster-Row., 1797 - 410 страници |
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... charged upon this Noble Lord ? Does it appear , or can it be pretended with the least truth , that he was even asked his opinion about it , much more that he gave any fuch advice or direction to the Attorney - General ? Does merely ...
... charged upon this Noble Lord ? Does it appear , or can it be pretended with the least truth , that he was even asked his opinion about it , much more that he gave any fuch advice or direction to the Attorney - General ? Does merely ...
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... charge . High and honest minds can ill brook un- merited fufpicions . Refentment at the un- deferved imputation of the guilt they abhor fometimes precipitates them into the actual commiffion of that very guilt ; and when infolent and ...
... charge . High and honest minds can ill brook un- merited fufpicions . Refentment at the un- deferved imputation of the guilt they abhor fometimes precipitates them into the actual commiffion of that very guilt ; and when infolent and ...
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... charge being brought home to any administration , of fo ignominious a fentence being paffed upon any minifter in all the annals of our history ? And can the men who confirmed that charge , and pronounced that fentence against the fyftem ...
... charge being brought home to any administration , of fo ignominious a fentence being paffed upon any minifter in all the annals of our history ? And can the men who confirmed that charge , and pronounced that fentence against the fyftem ...
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... charges Sir John Dalrymple with having been difmiffed feven years ago , by Lord Rockingham's administration , from a law office in the excife of Scotland , on ac- count of corruption in office , and with- having invented his late ...
... charges Sir John Dalrymple with having been difmiffed feven years ago , by Lord Rockingham's administration , from a law office in the excife of Scotland , on ac- count of corruption in office , and with- having invented his late ...
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... charge of corruption in office , and even of the fufpicion of it . " 46 66 [ The truth of this pretended quotation is doubted . To have fhewn the purity of Sir John Dalrymple's character , the writer should have published the report ...
... charge of corruption in office , and even of the fufpicion of it . " 46 66 [ The truth of this pretended quotation is doubted . To have fhewn the purity of Sir John Dalrymple's character , the writer should have published the report ...
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