Critical and historical essaysDent, 1966 |
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Page 243
... talent , parliamentary talent , has been the most valuable of all the qualifications of an English statesman . It has stood in the place of all other acquirements . It has covered ignorance , weakness , rashness , the most fatal ...
... talent , parliamentary talent , has been the most valuable of all the qualifications of an English statesman . It has stood in the place of all other acquirements . It has covered ignorance , weakness , rashness , the most fatal ...
Page 371
... talents and ambition of the Whig party , and by making room here and there for a Tory not unfriendly to the House of Brunswick , Walpole might have averted the tremendous conflict in which he passed the later years of his administration ...
... talents and ambition of the Whig party , and by making room here and there for a Tory not unfriendly to the House of Brunswick , Walpole might have averted the tremendous conflict in which he passed the later years of his administration ...
Page 654
... talents and to the fine natural dispositions of his House . But his situation was very different from that of the two eminent men of whom we have spoken . In some important respects it was better , in some it was worse than theirs . He ...
... talents and to the fine natural dispositions of his House . But his situation was very different from that of the two eminent men of whom we have spoken . In some important respects it was better , in some it was worse than theirs . He ...
Contents
ENGLISH HISTORY | 3 |
Introduction by Douglas Jerrold | 18 |
BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES | 405 |
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