Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1Dent, 1909 - 669 pages |
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... JAMES MACKINTOSH HORACE WALPOLE WILLIAM PITT • 77 · 102 • • 150 · 195 273 • 331 · 366 THE EARL OF CHATHAM • 404 CLIVE WARREN HASTINGS LORD HOLLAND • 479 • 55 ° · • 650 INDEX 661 סי MACAULAY'S ESSAYS HALLAM ( September 1828 ) In 2 vols.
... JAMES MACKINTOSH HORACE WALPOLE WILLIAM PITT • 77 · 102 • • 150 · 195 273 • 331 · 366 THE EARL OF CHATHAM • 404 CLIVE WARREN HASTINGS LORD HOLLAND • 479 • 55 ° · • 650 INDEX 661 סי MACAULAY'S ESSAYS HALLAM ( September 1828 ) In 2 vols.
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... Pitt Clubs , under the name of a minister who was as bad a representative of the system which has been christened after him as Becket of the spirit of the Gospel . On the other hand , the cause for which Hampden bled on the field and ...
... Pitt Clubs , under the name of a minister who was as bad a representative of the system which has been christened after him as Becket of the spirit of the Gospel . On the other hand , the cause for which Hampden bled on the field and ...
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... Pitt as a Falstaff , or Mr. Fox as a skeleton ; nor did any libeller ever impute parsimony to Sheridan , or profusion to Marlborough . It must be allowed that the turn of mind which the eulogists of Temple have dignified with the ...
... Pitt as a Falstaff , or Mr. Fox as a skeleton ; nor did any libeller ever impute parsimony to Sheridan , or profusion to Marlborough . It must be allowed that the turn of mind which the eulogists of Temple have dignified with the ...
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... Pitt , who , as George the Second said , had never opened Vattel , and which was very near making a Chancellor of the Exchequer of Mr. Sheridan , who could not work a sum in long division . This was the sort of talent which raised ...
... Pitt , who , as George the Second said , had never opened Vattel , and which was very near making a Chancellor of the Exchequer of Mr. Sheridan , who could not work a sum in long division . This was the sort of talent which raised ...
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... Pitt in its splendid dawn , still murmured that they had heard nothing like the great speeches of Lord Halifax on the Exclusion Bill . The power of Shaftesbury over large masses was unrivalled . Halifax was disqualified by his whole ...
... Pitt in its splendid dawn , still murmured that they had heard nothing like the great speeches of Lord Halifax on the Exclusion Bill . The power of Shaftesbury over large masses was unrivalled . Halifax was disqualified by his whole ...
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