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... PITT , EARL OF CHATHAM . ( Edinburgh Re- 75 143 view , January 1834. ) . 194 SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH . ( Edinburgh Review , July 1835. ) 251 LORD BACON . ( Edinburgh Review , July 1837. ) 336 CONTENTS OF THE FOURTH VOLUME . SIR WILLIAM ...
... PITT , EARL OF CHATHAM . ( Edinburgh Re- 75 143 view , January 1834. ) . 194 SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH . ( Edinburgh Review , July 1835. ) 251 LORD BACON . ( Edinburgh Review , July 1837. ) 336 CONTENTS OF THE FOURTH VOLUME . SIR WILLIAM ...
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... Pitt , and with respect and tenderness of Mr. Canning . Yet the whole difference , we suspect , con- sisted merely in this , that Mr. Pitt died in 1806 , and Mr. Canning in 1827. During the years which were common to the public life of ...
... Pitt , and with respect and tenderness of Mr. Canning . Yet the whole difference , we suspect , con- sisted merely in this , that Mr. Pitt died in 1806 , and Mr. Canning in 1827. During the years which were common to the public life of ...
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... Pitt had lived in 1832 , it is our firm belief that he would have been a decided Reformer . The judgment passed by M. Dumont in this work on the French Revolution must be taken with consid- erable allowances . It resembles a criticism ...
... Pitt had lived in 1832 , it is our firm belief that he would have been a decided Reformer . The judgment passed by M. Dumont in this work on the French Revolution must be taken with consid- erable allowances . It resembles a criticism ...
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... Pitt and Murray might talk themselves hoarse about trifles . But questions of government and war were too insignificant to detain a mind which was occupied in recording the scandal of club - rooms and the whispers of the back - stairs ...
... Pitt and Murray might talk themselves hoarse about trifles . But questions of government and war were too insignificant to detain a mind which was occupied in recording the scandal of club - rooms and the whispers of the back - stairs ...
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... Pitt was a strut- ting , ranting , mouthing actor , Charles Townshend an impudent and voluble jack - pudding , Murray a demure , cold - blooded , cowardly hypocrite , Hardwicke an inso- lent upstart , with the understanding of a ...
... Pitt was a strut- ting , ranting , mouthing actor , Charles Townshend an impudent and voluble jack - pudding , Murray a demure , cold - blooded , cowardly hypocrite , Hardwicke an inso- lent upstart , with the understanding of a ...
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