Historical Sketches of Statesmen who Flourished in the Time of George III, Volume 1 |
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... lived in a remote age or country from those whose rulers he has endeavoured to describe ; and that , if any prejudices or predilections have operated upon his mind , they have been unknown to himself . He is quite aware that some may ...
... lived in a remote age or country from those whose rulers he has endeavoured to describe ; and that , if any prejudices or predilections have operated upon his mind , they have been unknown to himself . He is quite aware that some may ...
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... , and sat in the same shade with the rest of his generation at the same twilight or the same dawn . Tried by this test , the younger Pitt cannot certainly be said to have lived before his time , or shed LORD CHATHAM . 27.
... , and sat in the same shade with the rest of his generation at the same twilight or the same dawn . Tried by this test , the younger Pitt cannot certainly be said to have lived before his time , or shed LORD CHATHAM . 27.
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Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux. said to have lived before his time , or shed upon the age to which he belonged the illumination of a more ad- vanced civilisation and more inspired philosophy . He came far too early into public ...
Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux. said to have lived before his time , or shed upon the age to which he belonged the illumination of a more ad- vanced civilisation and more inspired philosophy . He came far too early into public ...
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... lived in our own times . That Lord Loughborough never for- got the Douglas cause itself , as he was said to have for- gotten so many merely legal arguments in which he , from time to time , had been engaged , appears from one of his ...
... lived in our own times . That Lord Loughborough never for- got the Douglas cause itself , as he was said to have for- gotten so many merely legal arguments in which he , from time to time , had been engaged , appears from one of his ...
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... lived in this state of public neglect , without the virtue to employ his remaining faculties in his country's service by parliamentary attendance , or the manliness to use them for his own protection and aggrandisement . When he died ...
... lived in this state of public neglect , without the virtue to employ his remaining faculties in his country's service by parliamentary attendance , or the manliness to use them for his own protection and aggrandisement . When he died ...
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