Historical Sketches of Statesmen who Flourished in the Time of George III, Volume 1 |
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... constitution and privi- leges of parliament ; the jurisdiction of Courts ; the principles , nay , even the details of banking , or of trade generally ; the East India or Colonial affairs of his Empire ; the interests of foreign ...
... constitution and privi- leges of parliament ; the jurisdiction of Courts ; the principles , nay , even the details of banking , or of trade generally ; the East India or Colonial affairs of his Empire ; the interests of foreign ...
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... constitutions did , when he proposed to have a Grand Functionary with no power except to give away offices ; upon which Napoleon , then first consul , to whom the proposition was tendered , asked if it well became him to be made a 12 ...
... constitutions did , when he proposed to have a Grand Functionary with no power except to give away offices ; upon which Napoleon , then first consul , to whom the proposition was tendered , asked if it well became him to be made a 12 ...
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... constitution of their hearts , those who neither can forget a kindness nor an injury . Nor can this sketch be more appropriately closed than with two remarkable examples of the implacable hatred he bore his enemies , and the steady ...
... constitution of their hearts , those who neither can forget a kindness nor an injury . Nor can this sketch be more appropriately closed than with two remarkable examples of the implacable hatred he bore his enemies , and the steady ...
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... constitution safe through the most trying times , and saving us from arbitrary power without paying the price of our liberties in anarchy and bloodshed , -nay , conducting the whole proceedings of a revolution with all the deliberation ...
... constitution safe through the most trying times , and saving us from arbitrary power without paying the price of our liberties in anarchy and bloodshed , -nay , conducting the whole proceedings of a revolution with all the deliberation ...
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... constitution , the views of a deep and original wisdom . Accordingly , it would be difficult to glean , from all his measures and all his speeches , anything like the fruits of inventive genius ; or to mark any token of his mind having ...
... constitution , the views of a deep and original wisdom . Accordingly , it would be difficult to glean , from all his measures and all his speeches , anything like the fruits of inventive genius ; or to mark any token of his mind having ...
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