Prose and PoetryR. Hart-Davis, 1952 - 864 pages |
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Page 300
... tion was excited to the highest point when it appeared that New- castle who had , during thirty years , been loaded with marks of royal favour , and who had bound himself , by a solemn promise , never to coalesce with Pitt , was ...
... tion was excited to the highest point when it appeared that New- castle who had , during thirty years , been loaded with marks of royal favour , and who had bound himself , by a solemn promise , never to coalesce with Pitt , was ...
Page 421
... tion of a vigorous mind . It was no time for trifling . Hastings determined to resort to an extreme exercise of power , to suspend the incapable governor of Fort St. George , to send Sir Eyre Coote to oppose Hyder , and to entrust that ...
... tion of a vigorous mind . It was no time for trifling . Hastings determined to resort to an extreme exercise of power , to suspend the incapable governor of Fort St. George , to send Sir Eyre Coote to oppose Hyder , and to entrust that ...
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... tion which my honorable friend thinks so complete ; and what the flaw is we may perhaps discover if we look at the analogous case to which I have so often referred . Sir , exactly three hundred years ago , great religious changes were ...
... tion which my honorable friend thinks so complete ; and what the flaw is we may perhaps discover if we look at the analogous case to which I have so often referred . Sir , exactly three hundred years ago , great religious changes were ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 7 |
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND SELECTED PASSAGES II | 13 |
ESSAYS | 233 |
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