Critical and historical essaysDent, 1966 |
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... statesmen seems to have degenerated ; and their moral and intellectual littleness strikes us with the more disgust , because ... statesman who enters on his career at such a time , can form no permanent connections , can make no accurate ...
... statesmen seems to have degenerated ; and their moral and intellectual littleness strikes us with the more disgust , because ... statesman who enters on his career at such a time , can form no permanent connections , can make no accurate ...
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... statesman of the age of Charles the Second , to a statesman , who wished , without depriving the Parliament of its privileges , to maintain the monarch in his old supremacy , it must have appeared very perplexing . Clarendon had , when ...
... statesman of the age of Charles the Second , to a statesman , who wished , without depriving the Parliament of its privileges , to maintain the monarch in his old supremacy , it must have appeared very perplexing . Clarendon had , when ...
Page 557
... statesman ; but still he was a statesman , and not a freebooter . In 1764 Hastings returned to England . He had realised only a very moderate fortune ; and that moderate fortune was soon reduced to nothing , partly by his praiseworthy ...
... statesman ; but still he was a statesman , and not a freebooter . In 1764 Hastings returned to England . He had realised only a very moderate fortune ; and that moderate fortune was soon reduced to nothing , partly by his praiseworthy ...
Contents
ENGLISH HISTORY | 3 |
Introduction by Douglas Jerrold | 18 |
BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES | 405 |
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