Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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... PITT , EARL OF CHATHAM . January 1834 SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH . July 1835 EDITOR'S APPENDIX Glossary of Allusions INDEX VOL . II . 38X1084 A 298 354 439 453 465 CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL ESSAYS CONTRIBUTED TO THE EDINBURGH REVIEW SAMUEL.
... PITT , EARL OF CHATHAM . January 1834 SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH . July 1835 EDITOR'S APPENDIX Glossary of Allusions INDEX VOL . II . 38X1084 A 298 354 439 453 465 CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL ESSAYS CONTRIBUTED TO THE EDINBURGH REVIEW SAMUEL.
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... Pitt , secretary of state . This administration lasted till the month of April 1757. Byng's court - martial began to sit on the 28th of December 1756. He was shot on the 14th of March 1757. There is something at once diverting and ...
... Pitt , secretary of state . This administration lasted till the month of April 1757. Byng's court - martial began to sit on the 28th of December 1756. He was shot on the 14th of March 1757. There is something at once diverting and ...
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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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... a general survey of what he has written concerning them , we should say that Pitt was a strutting , ranting , mouthing actor , HIS CONTRADICTIONS 265 Charles Townshend an impudent and voluble jack- 264 HORACE WALPOLE.
... a general survey of what he has written concerning them , we should say that Pitt was a strutting , ranting , mouthing actor , HIS CONTRADICTIONS 265 Charles Townshend an impudent and voluble jack- 264 HORACE WALPOLE.
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... Pitt . And why ? Because Mr. Pitt had been among the persecutors of his father ? Or because , as he re- peatedly 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 ? Because Mr. Pitt had been among the persecutors of his father ? Or because , as he re- peatedly 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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