Anecdote Biography: William Pitt, Earl of Chatham and Edmund BurkeR. Bentley, 1862 - 392 pages |
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... England , the locus in quo is omitted altogether ; as also in the brief outline prefixed to the first volume of the Chatham Correspondence . The founder of the noble family of Pitt was , according to the Genealogical Table in Mr ...
... England , the locus in quo is omitted altogether ; as also in the brief outline prefixed to the first volume of the Chatham Correspondence . The founder of the noble family of Pitt was , according to the Genealogical Table in Mr ...
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... England's genius bend o'er Chatham's bier ; Her sails no more in every clime unfurled , Proclaim her dictates to the admiring world . No more shall accents , nervous , bold , and strong , Flow in full periods from his patriot tongue ...
... England's genius bend o'er Chatham's bier ; Her sails no more in every clime unfurled , Proclaim her dictates to the admiring world . No more shall accents , nervous , bold , and strong , Flow in full periods from his patriot tongue ...
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... England , vol . iii . p . 13 . Through life ( says Mr. Charles Butler , ) Mr. Pitt cultivated * Barrow's amplitude of style is not unfrequently discernible in Pitt . But Barrow's more poetical attributes - his bursts of passionate ...
... England , vol . iii . p . 13 . Through life ( says Mr. Charles Butler , ) Mr. Pitt cultivated * Barrow's amplitude of style is not unfrequently discernible in Pitt . But Barrow's more poetical attributes - his bursts of passionate ...
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... England , and England the first country in the world . PITT AND LORD COBHAM AT STOWE . Pitt , from the time he lost his commission , seems to have been more intimately admitted to the confidence and esteem of Lord Cobham , the owner of ...
... England , and England the first country in the world . PITT AND LORD COBHAM AT STOWE . Pitt , from the time he lost his commission , seems to have been more intimately admitted to the confidence and esteem of Lord Cobham , the owner of ...
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... England every sum be- longing to his office , without appropriating a shilling to his private use . He did not , as his predecessors had done , invest it in the funds , or derive the smallest interest from the capital . The second fact ...
... England every sum be- longing to his office , without appropriating a shilling to his private use . He did not , as his predecessors had done , invest it in the funds , or derive the smallest interest from the capital . The second fact ...
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