Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 5B. Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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Page 178
... Bute . The Earl of Bute was scarcely known , even by name , to the country which he was soon to govern . He had indeed , a short time after he came of age , been chosen to fill a vacancy which , in the middle of a parliament , had taken ...
... Bute . The Earl of Bute was scarcely known , even by name , to the country which he was soon to govern . He had indeed , a short time after he came of age , been chosen to fill a vacancy which , in the middle of a parliament , had taken ...
Page 179
... Bute made his appearance at Leicester House . Our readers may perhaps remember the account which Charlotte Grandison gives of her two lovers . One of them , a fashionable baronet who talks French and Italian fluently , cannot write a ...
... Bute made his appearance at Leicester House . Our readers may perhaps remember the account which Charlotte Grandison gives of her two lovers . One of them , a fashionable baronet who talks French and Italian fluently , cannot write a ...
Page 183
... Bute yielded ; and , even after Bute had yielded , the King affected to hold out till the following afternoon . On the same day on which this singular contest took place Bute was not only sworn of the privy council , but introduced into ...
... Bute yielded ; and , even after Bute had yielded , the King affected to hold out till the following afternoon . On the same day on which this singular contest took place Bute was not only sworn of the privy council , but introduced into ...
Page 187
... Bute to deal . Legge was the first who fell . He had given offence to the young King in the late reign , by refusing to support a creature of Bute at a Hampshire election . He was now not only turned out , but in the closet , when he ...
... Bute to deal . Legge was the first who fell . He had given offence to the young King in the late reign , by refusing to support a creature of Bute at a Hampshire election . He was now not only turned out , but in the closet , when he ...
Page 188
... Bute was foremost in opposing it , and was supported by almost the whole cabinet . Some of the ministers doubted , or affected to doubt , the correctness of Pitt's intelligence ; some shrank from the responsibility of advising a course ...
... Bute was foremost in opposing it , and was supported by almost the whole cabinet . Some of the ministers doubted , or affected to doubt , the correctness of Pitt's intelligence ; some shrank from the responsibility of advising a course ...
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