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Page 134
... taken a more decided part than Hampden . They had all been concerned in the impeachment of Strafford . They had all , there is reason to believe , voted for the Bill of Attainder . Certainly none of them voted against it . They had all ...
... taken a more decided part than Hampden . They had all been concerned in the impeachment of Strafford . They had all , there is reason to believe , voted for the Bill of Attainder . Certainly none of them voted against it . They had all ...
Page 424
... taken . The same Gazette which announced the retirement of the Secretary of State announced also that , in consideration of his great public services , his wife had been created a peeress in her own right , and that a pension of three ...
... taken . The same Gazette which announced the retirement of the Secretary of State announced also that , in consideration of his great public services , his wife had been created a peeress in her own right , and that a pension of three ...
Page 519
... taken anything , we must admit that he deserves praise for having taken so little . He accepted twenty lacs of rupees . It would have cost him only a word to make the twenty forty . It was a very easy exercise of virtue to declaim in ...
... taken anything , we must admit that he deserves praise for having taken so little . He accepted twenty lacs of rupees . It would have cost him only a word to make the twenty forty . It was a very easy exercise of virtue to declaim in ...
Contents
ENGLISH HISTORY | 3 |
Introduction by Douglas Jerrold | 18 |
BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES | 405 |
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