The Speeches of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox, in the House of Commons ...Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815 |
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... never be carried on with any degree of success : and though the people should be whimsical and capricious in their dislike of any minister , yet it never could be con- sonant to sound policy to keep him in office against the opinion and ...
... never be carried on with any degree of success : and though the people should be whimsical and capricious in their dislike of any minister , yet it never could be con- sonant to sound policy to keep him in office against the opinion and ...
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... never have been effected without his naval force , When Admiral Darby was at Gibraltar with a very fine fleet , he should have been instructed to detach a part of it to the West Indies , if he should not meet with any opposition in ...
... never have been effected without his naval force , When Admiral Darby was at Gibraltar with a very fine fleet , he should have been instructed to detach a part of it to the West Indies , if he should not meet with any opposition in ...
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... never thought of making Admiral Darby acquainted with the expected arrival of the St. Eustatius convoy , till the 10th of May ; and then dis- patched a frigate to him , to give him orders to sail to a par- ticular latitude , in order to ...
... never thought of making Admiral Darby acquainted with the expected arrival of the St. Eustatius convoy , till the 10th of May ; and then dis- patched a frigate to him , to give him orders to sail to a par- ticular latitude , in order to ...
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... never been called to an account for it . As an epitome of all the other charges , he subjoined a fifth , drawn from the latest circumstance , that of the meeting between Admiral Kempenfelt and the Brest fleet . He read the names of the ...
... never been called to an account for it . As an epitome of all the other charges , he subjoined a fifth , drawn from the latest circumstance , that of the meeting between Admiral Kempenfelt and the Brest fleet . He read the names of the ...
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... , as his faithful Commons had advised him ; but his ministers undoubtedly meant no such thing , for their lan- guage was different . VOL . II . But the noble lord had said , that he never 1782. ] 33 THE AMERICAN WAR .
... , as his faithful Commons had advised him ; but his ministers undoubtedly meant no such thing , for their lan- guage was different . VOL . II . But the noble lord had said , that he never 1782. ] 33 THE AMERICAN WAR .
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