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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... truth , univerfal fraud , and baseft mifreprefentation , blinded the reafon of men ; while every feductive and inflam- matory art perverted and poifoned their paf- fions . Without fuch impulfe , no monarch , however blind or obftinate ...
... truth , univerfal fraud , and baseft mifreprefentation , blinded the reafon of men ; while every feductive and inflam- matory art perverted and poifoned their paf- fions . Without fuch impulfe , no monarch , however blind or obftinate ...
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... truth of the man , whofe folly and fallacies mifled them to caft America from us , the prefent difunion of Ireland , which their marked fervility to him at the clofe of laft Seffion has already produced , and their pre- pofterous ...
... truth of the man , whofe folly and fallacies mifled them to caft America from us , the prefent difunion of Ireland , which their marked fervility to him at the clofe of laft Seffion has already produced , and their pre- pofterous ...
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... truth , fo the political effect that has been stated as generally felt , cannot be the refult of the most perfect constitutional principles . The diftinguishing characteristic of the prefent reign feems to be the new fpirit in which the ...
... truth , fo the political effect that has been stated as generally felt , cannot be the refult of the most perfect constitutional principles . The diftinguishing characteristic of the prefent reign feems to be the new fpirit in which the ...
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... truth , whoever would now go about to talk of whig - principles in government ; inspired and established by the honour of the peers or the virtue of the commons , must be a more impudent knave than the majority of either houfe can ...
... truth , whoever would now go about to talk of whig - principles in government ; inspired and established by the honour of the peers or the virtue of the commons , must be a more impudent knave than the majority of either houfe can ...
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... truth is , the noble Lord acted in this matter upon the most honourable and temperate principle . He had been just then difmiffed from the Cabinet , and could only in the Houfe of Lords deliver his fentiments on this great national ...
... truth is , the noble Lord acted in this matter upon the most honourable and temperate principle . He had been just then difmiffed from the Cabinet , and could only in the Houfe of Lords deliver his fentiments on this great national ...
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