Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1877 |
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... question was certainly very complicated . That claim which , according to the ordinary rules of inheritance , was the strongest , had been barred by a contract executed in the most binding form . The claim of the Electoral Prince of ...
... question was certainly very complicated . That claim which , according to the ordinary rules of inheritance , was the strongest , had been barred by a contract executed in the most binding form . The claim of the Electoral Prince of ...
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. The scarcely been signed when the Prince died . question was again unsettled , and presented greater difficulties than before . A new Treaty of Partition was concluded between France , England ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. The scarcely been signed when the Prince died . question was again unsettled , and presented greater difficulties than before . A new Treaty of Partition was concluded between France , England ...
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... question of the Spanish succession was not an internal question , but an European question . And this Lord Mahon admits . He thinks that , when the evil had been done , and a French Prince was reigning at the Escurial , England and ...
... question of the Spanish succession was not an internal question , but an European question . And this Lord Mahon admits . He thinks that , when the evil had been done , and a French Prince was reigning at the Escurial , England and ...
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... question which divided England during the last four years of Anne's reign , the Tories were in the right , and the Whigs in the wrong . That question was , whether England ought to conclude peace without exacting from Philip a ...
... question which divided England during the last four years of Anne's reign , the Tories were in the right , and the Whigs in the wrong . That question was , whether England ought to conclude peace without exacting from Philip a ...
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... question of the peace of Utrecht with calmness and impartiality . That the Whig Ministers had sold us to the Dutch ; that the Tory Ministers had sold us to the French ; that the war had been carried on only to fill the pockets of ...
... question of the peace of Utrecht with calmness and impartiality . That the Whig Ministers had sold us to the Dutch ; that the Tory Ministers had sold us to the French ; that the war had been carried on only to fill the pockets of ...
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