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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... less gratitude those helps within his reach , in the excellent Athenæum Libra- ry , of the city of Boston , remarkable and enjoyable beyond other libraries of this country , for the liberality of its loanings , and an unrestricted ...
... less gratitude those helps within his reach , in the excellent Athenæum Libra- ry , of the city of Boston , remarkable and enjoyable beyond other libraries of this country , for the liberality of its loanings , and an unrestricted ...
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... less intended to aid a discovery than to set investigators astray . The advocacy for Sir Philip Francis , aided by his own demeanor respecting it , was wonderfully calculated to divert the public mind from the true merits of the ...
... less intended to aid a discovery than to set investigators astray . The advocacy for Sir Philip Francis , aided by his own demeanor respecting it , was wonderfully calculated to divert the public mind from the true merits of the ...
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... less than ten years - in 1770 , and under these the government sustained a succession of the rudest assaults , urged and directed by the angry and inde- fatigable Earl of Chatham , who fulminated powerfully in the House of Lords , more ...
... less than ten years - in 1770 , and under these the government sustained a succession of the rudest assaults , urged and directed by the angry and inde- fatigable Earl of Chatham , who fulminated powerfully in the House of Lords , more ...
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... less than a year Walpole deprived the " terrible cornet of Horse " of his commission , seeing he could not muzzle him , and Pitt then became groom of Prince Frederick's Bed Chamber . His sister , Mrs. Ann Pitt , also became attached to ...
... less than a year Walpole deprived the " terrible cornet of Horse " of his commission , seeing he could not muzzle him , and Pitt then became groom of Prince Frederick's Bed Chamber . His sister , Mrs. Ann Pitt , also became attached to ...
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... less subtle intellect to do so ; for , though Fox was cunning , Pitt was deep . But we cannot help thinking it displayed something of that equivocal art , visible in certain of the miscellaneous letters , and to be spoken of more ...
... less subtle intellect to do so ; for , though Fox was cunning , Pitt was deep . But we cannot help thinking it displayed something of that equivocal art , visible in certain of the miscellaneous letters , and to be spoken of more ...
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Страница 96 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
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