The Quarterly Review, Volume 129John Murray, 1870 |
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displacing a commander or upsetting a ministry to pique or please a favourite , was one element of disturbance and uncer- tainty : an unsettled dynasty was another . To play the grand game of war , politics , or diplomacy , it was ...
displacing a commander or upsetting a ministry to pique or please a favourite , was one element of disturbance and uncer- tainty : an unsettled dynasty was another . To play the grand game of war , politics , or diplomacy , it was ...
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... Minister , and runs thus : - This will be delivered to you by Mr. Churchill , whom I yesterday presented to his Most Christian Majesty , on the part of the king of Great Britain , with a request for the grant of a commission of Colonel ...
... Minister , and runs thus : - This will be delivered to you by Mr. Churchill , whom I yesterday presented to his Most Christian Majesty , on the part of the king of Great Britain , with a request for the grant of a commission of Colonel ...
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... Minister's power was limited , and that he was not expected to resign simply because he was out- voted or overruled . It was usual for the sovereign to attend the debates in the House of Lords , to preside at meetings of the Cabinet ...
... Minister's power was limited , and that he was not expected to resign simply because he was out- voted or overruled . It was usual for the sovereign to attend the debates in the House of Lords , to preside at meetings of the Cabinet ...
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... Ministers expressed their agreement by their looks . The Queen remained silent but presently withdrew , leaving the ... ministry went down before the storm , and in the ensuing election a decided majority declared for the Tory ministry ...
... Ministers expressed their agreement by their looks . The Queen remained silent but presently withdrew , leaving the ... ministry went down before the storm , and in the ensuing election a decided majority declared for the Tory ministry ...
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... ministry , to which Prior , Freind , King , and St. John himself were contributors . It was in the fourteenth week of its existence that Swift undertook the editorship , editorship , which he retained for a space of seven Earl ...
... ministry , to which Prior , Freind , King , and St. John himself were contributors . It was in the fourteenth week of its existence that Swift undertook the editorship , editorship , which he retained for a space of seven Earl ...
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