Historical Sketches of Statesmen who Flourished in the Time of George III, Volume 1 |
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... interests and the history of nations , the relative value of institutions as discovered by their actual working , the merits of different systems of policy as tried by their effects , are all very imperfectly examined without a thorough ...
... interests and the history of nations , the relative value of institutions as discovered by their actual working , the merits of different systems of policy as tried by their effects , are all very imperfectly examined without a thorough ...
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... interests , and made to learn that ignorance of their craft is in their calling criminal , by having placed before their eyes the examples of others - their signal punishment to deter from vice , their glorious reward to stimulate in ...
... interests , and made to learn that ignorance of their craft is in their calling criminal , by having placed before their eyes the examples of others - their signal punishment to deter from vice , their glorious reward to stimulate in ...
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... interest not only to the people of his vast dominions , but to all mankind . He presided over the destinies of the British Empire , the only free state in the world , during an age that wit- nessed the establishment of independence in ...
... interest not only to the people of his vast dominions , but to all mankind . He presided over the destinies of the British Empire , the only free state in the world , during an age that wit- nessed the establishment of independence in ...
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... interest in ascertaining the bounds of each de- partment's duties and rights . They find protection in keeping each ... interests of foreign countries ; the statis- tics of his own ; all of them kinds of knowledge as certainly worthy of ...
... interest in ascertaining the bounds of each de- partment's duties and rights . They find protection in keeping each ... interests of foreign countries ; the statis- tics of his own ; all of them kinds of knowledge as certainly worthy of ...
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... interest in the subject as bearing upon the grievances of Ireland ; and accordingly they have handed down to us some notes , from internal evidence plainly authentic , of Lord Chatham's cele- brated speeches upon that question . A few ...
... interest in the subject as bearing upon the grievances of Ireland ; and accordingly they have handed down to us some notes , from internal evidence plainly authentic , of Lord Chatham's cele- brated speeches upon that question . A few ...
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