Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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Page 8
... Charles Townshend , the chancellor of the exchequer , was ' nephew of the prime minister , and son of a peer who was secretary of state , and leader of the House of Lords.'3 Charles Towns- hend was not nephew , but grandnephew , of the ...
... Charles Townshend , the chancellor of the exchequer , was ' nephew of the prime minister , and son of a peer who was secretary of state , and leader of the House of Lords.'3 Charles Towns- hend was not nephew , but grandnephew , of the ...
Page 34
... Charles the Second , and to the City and Country Mouse , that Montague owed his introduction into public life , his earldom , his garter , and his Audi- torship of the Exchequer . Swift , but for the unconquerable prejudice of the queen ...
... Charles the Second , and to the City and Country Mouse , that Montague owed his introduction into public life , his earldom , his garter , and his Audi- torship of the Exchequer . Swift , but for the unconquerable prejudice of the queen ...
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... Charles the Second who possessed talents for composition which were indepen- dent of the aid of a coronet . Montague owed his elevation to the favour of Dorset , and imitated through the whole course of his life the liberality to which ...
... Charles the Second who possessed talents for composition which were indepen- dent of the aid of a coronet . Montague owed his elevation to the favour of Dorset , and imitated through the whole course of his life the liberality to which ...
Page 81
... Charles's faction . Those writers have carefully preserved every little circumstance which could tend to make their opponents odious or contemptible . They have made themselves merry with the cant of injudicious zealots . They have told ...
... Charles's faction . Those writers have carefully preserved every little circumstance which could tend to make their opponents odious or contemptible . They have made themselves merry with the cant of injudicious zealots . They have told ...
Page 86
... Charles the Bold . Comines , who had lived amidst the wealthy cities of Flanders , and who had visited Florence and Venice , had never seen a people so well governed as the English . Or selon mon advis , ' says he , ' entre toutes les ...
... Charles the Bold . Comines , who had lived amidst the wealthy cities of Flanders , and who had visited Florence and Venice , had never seen a people so well governed as the English . Or selon mon advis , ' says he , ' entre toutes les ...
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