Critical and Historical Essays ; Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longman, 1862 |
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... War of the Succession in Spain Horace Walpole · William Pitt , Earl of Chatham Sir James Mackintosh Lord Bacon / Gladstone on Church and State Sir William Temple Page 1 · 35 98 · 146 200 280 · 430 504 HOTHER * K. WIEN.
... War of the Succession in Spain Horace Walpole · William Pitt , Earl of Chatham Sir James Mackintosh Lord Bacon / Gladstone on Church and State Sir William Temple Page 1 · 35 98 · 146 200 280 · 430 504 HOTHER * K. WIEN.
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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 strutting , ranting , mouthing actor , Charles Townshend an impudent and voluble jack - pudding , Murray a demure , cold - blooded , cowardly hypocrite , Hardwicke an insolent upstart , with the under- standing of a ...
... Pitt was a strutting , ranting , mouthing actor , Charles Townshend an impudent and voluble jack - pudding , Murray a demure , cold - blooded , cowardly hypocrite , Hardwicke an insolent upstart , with the under- standing of a ...
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... Pitt . And why ? Be- cause Mr. Pitt had been among the persecutors of his father ? Or because , as he repeatedly assures us , Mr. Pitt was a disagreeable man in private life ? Not at all ; but because Mr. Pitt was too fond of war , and ...
... Pitt . And why ? Be- cause Mr. Pitt had been among the persecutors of his father ? Or because , as he repeatedly assures us , Mr. Pitt was a disagreeable man in private life ? Not at all ; but because Mr. Pitt was too fond of war , and ...
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... Pitt , for example , among public men , and Johnson , among men of letters , afterwards openly acknowledged their mistake . The aspect of the opposition , even while it was still a minority in the House of Commons , was very im- posing ...
... Pitt , for example , among public men , and Johnson , among men of letters , afterwards openly acknowledged their mistake . The aspect of the opposition , even while it was still a minority in the House of Commons , was very im- posing ...
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