Historical Sketches of Statesmen who Flourished in the Time of George III, Volume 1 |
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... ordinary things , and a resolute attachment to all his own opinions and predilections , George III . possessed much of the firmness of purpose , which , being exhibited by men of contracted mind without any discrimination , and as ...
... ordinary things , and a resolute attachment to all his own opinions and predilections , George III . possessed much of the firmness of purpose , which , being exhibited by men of contracted mind without any discrimination , and as ...
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... ordinary legal pro- ceeding ; have surrounded his name with a mild yet imperishable glory , which , in the contrast of our dark ignorance respecting all the particulars and details of his life , gives the figure something altogether ...
... ordinary legal pro- ceeding ; have surrounded his name with a mild yet imperishable glory , which , in the contrast of our dark ignorance respecting all the particulars and details of his life , gives the figure something altogether ...
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... ordinary men - their squeamishness , and their precedents , and their forms , and their regularities - and forced away its path through the entanglements of this base undergrowth to the worthy object ever in view , the prosperity and ...
... ordinary men - their squeamishness , and their precedents , and their forms , and their regularities - and forced away its path through the entanglements of this base undergrowth to the worthy object ever in view , the prosperity and ...
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... ordinary routine of the day , as if familiar with any ideas that did not pass through the most vul- gar understandings . His father's intellect was of a higher order ; he had evidently , though without much education , and with no ...
... ordinary routine of the day , as if familiar with any ideas that did not pass through the most vul- gar understandings . His father's intellect was of a higher order ; he had evidently , though without much education , and with no ...
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... rather resembled the more recent balance of parliamentary power , than the ordinary workings of our constitution . Such was the strife , and in such untoward circum- stances , which Lord North had to maintain , with LORD NORTH . 53.
... rather resembled the more recent balance of parliamentary power , than the ordinary workings of our constitution . Such was the strife , and in such untoward circum- stances , which Lord North had to maintain , with LORD NORTH . 53.
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