Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Bernh. Tauchnitz jun., 1850 - 349 pages |
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... Commons , and consequently first minister . The contest was long and obstinate , and success seemed to lean some- times to one side and sometimes to the other . Fox put forth all his rare powers of debate , beat half the lawyers in the ...
... Commons , and consequently first minister . The contest was long and obstinate , and success seemed to lean some- times to one side and sometimes to the other . Fox put forth all his rare powers of debate , beat half the lawyers in the ...
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... Commons and in the country was unbounded , was eager to mark his regard for one whose exploits had con- tributed so much to the lustre of that memorable period . The great orator had already in Parliament described Clive as a heaven ...
... Commons and in the country was unbounded , was eager to mark his regard for one whose exploits had con- tributed so much to the lustre of that memorable period . The great orator had already in Parliament described Clive as a heaven ...
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... Commons , at the head of a body of dependents whose support must have been im- portant to any administration . In English politics , how- ever , he did not take a prominent part . His first attachments , as we have seen , were to Mr ...
... Commons , at the head of a body of dependents whose support must have been im- portant to any administration . In English politics , how- ever , he did not take a prominent part . His first attachments , as we have seen , were to Mr ...
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... ghost of his former self , loved to haunt the scene of his glory , was that night under the gallery of the House of Commons , and declared that he had never heard a finer speech . It was subsequently printed under LORD CLIVE . 87.
... ghost of his former self , loved to haunt the scene of his glory , was that night under the gallery of the House of Commons , and declared that he had never heard a finer speech . It was subsequently printed under LORD CLIVE . 87.
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... Commons . Burgoyne , chairman of the committee , a man of wit , fashion , and honour , an agreeable dramatic writer , an officer whose courage was never questioned and whose skill was at that time highly esteemed , appeared as the The ...
... Commons . Burgoyne , chairman of the committee , a man of wit , fashion , and honour , an agreeable dramatic writer , an officer whose courage was never questioned and whose skill was at that time highly esteemed , appeared as the The ...
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