Junius, Lord Chatham: A Biography, Setting Forth the Condition of English Politics Preceding and Contemporary with the Revolutionary Junian Period, and Showing the the Greatest Orator and Statesman was Also the Greatest Epistolary Writer of His AgeTrübner & Company, 1857 - 252 страници An attempt to identify Junius with William Pitt, earl of Chatham. |
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... hand at a let- ter , a feeble sycophant of George III . , and , for the rest , a man of crotchets and oddities , which no one could rightly understand then , and which no one need try to understand any more . Such considerations ...
... hand at a let- ter , a feeble sycophant of George III . , and , for the rest , a man of crotchets and oddities , which no one could rightly understand then , and which no one need try to understand any more . Such considerations ...
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... hand in the letters - That he was the purveyor and assistant of the young War Office clerk - Their argument that the latter was " precocious , " and soon lost the early Junian stamina . CHAPTER VII . · POLITICAL BATTLES OF 1770 AND 1771 ...
... hand in the letters - That he was the purveyor and assistant of the young War Office clerk - Their argument that the latter was " precocious , " and soon lost the early Junian stamina . CHAPTER VII . · POLITICAL BATTLES OF 1770 AND 1771 ...
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... hand - Double discomfiture of Brigadier- general Townsend - Pitt the patron and friend of General Wolfe - Char- acter of that hero - His behavior at dinner with the great War - minister- Lord Mahon's piece of gossip - Pitt's fierce ...
... hand - Double discomfiture of Brigadier- general Townsend - Pitt the patron and friend of General Wolfe - Char- acter of that hero - His behavior at dinner with the great War - minister- Lord Mahon's piece of gossip - Pitt's fierce ...
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... hand in the letters ; that he was the ally or auxiliary of Junius . He could not avoid this conclusion . Tracing the arguments offered on behalf of Francis , the inquirer soon becomes aware of something he was not look- ing for in that ...
... hand in the letters ; that he was the ally or auxiliary of Junius . He could not avoid this conclusion . Tracing the arguments offered on behalf of Francis , the inquirer soon becomes aware of something he was not look- ing for in that ...
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... hand , taking it , as it were , by storm . It was , however , but an Irish office - the king still insisted on that - the Vice Treasurership of Ire- land . In a little time he was made Paymaster of the Forces -a department which was ...
... hand , taking it , as it were , by storm . It was , however , but an Irish office - the king still insisted on that - the Vice Treasurership of Ire- land . In a little time he was made Paymaster of the Forces -a department which was ...
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