Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 5J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 |
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Page 288
... . had been brought up in strict seclusion . The de- tractors of the Princess Dowager of Wales affirmed that she had kept her children from commerce with But He CHARACTER OF EARL BUTE 289 But society , in order 288 THE EARL OF CHATHAM.
... . had been brought up in strict seclusion . The de- tractors of the Princess Dowager of Wales affirmed that she had kept her children from commerce with But He CHARACTER OF EARL BUTE 289 But society , in order 288 THE EARL OF CHATHAM.
Page 289
... Bute . The Earl of Bute was scarcely known , even by name , to the country which he was soon to govern . He had indeed , a short time after he came of age , been chosen to fill a vacancy , which , in the middle of a parliament , had ...
... Bute . The Earl of Bute was scarcely known , even by name , to the country which he was soon to govern . He had indeed , a short time after he came of age , been chosen to fill a vacancy , which , in the middle of a parliament , had ...
Page 290
... Bute made his appearance at Leicester House . Our readers may perhaps remember the account which Charlotte Grandison gives of her two lovers . One of them , a fashionable baronet who talks French and Italian fluently , cannot write a ...
... Bute made his appearance at Leicester House . Our readers may perhaps remember the account which Charlotte Grandison gives of her two lovers . One of them , a fashionable baronet who talks French and Italian fluently , cannot write a ...
Page 294
... Bute yielded ; and , even after Bute had yielded , the King affected to hold out till the following afternoon . On the same day on which this singular contest took place , Bute was not only sworn of the privy council , but intro- duced ...
... Bute yielded ; and , even after Bute had yielded , the King affected to hold out till the following afternoon . On the same day on which this singular contest took place , Bute was not only sworn of the privy council , but intro- duced ...
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... Bute was instantly appointed to the vacant place . A general election speedily followed , and the new Secretary entered parliament in the only way in which he then could enter it , as one of the sixteen representative peers of Scotland ...
... Bute was instantly appointed to the vacant place . A general election speedily followed , and the new Secretary entered parliament in the only way in which he then could enter it , as one of the sixteen representative peers of Scotland ...
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