Historical Sketches of Statesmen who Flourished in the Time of George III, Volume 1 |
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... successful statesman and most brilliant orator that this country ever produced . Of Lord Somers , indeed , we can scarcely be said to know anything at all . That he was a person of unimpeachable integrity , a judge of great capacity and ...
... successful statesman and most brilliant orator that this country ever produced . Of Lord Somers , indeed , we can scarcely be said to know anything at all . That he was a person of unimpeachable integrity , a judge of great capacity and ...
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... success , and even all love of glory - it was hardly possible for a nation to be placed in circumstances more inauspicious to mili- tary exertions ; and yet war raged in every quarter of the world where our dominion extended , while the ...
... success , and even all love of glory - it was hardly possible for a nation to be placed in circumstances more inauspicious to mili- tary exertions ; and yet war raged in every quarter of the world where our dominion extended , while the ...
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... been fought by our navy . Thirty - six sail of the line were taken or destroyed ; fifty frigates ; forty - five sloops of war . So brilliant a course of uninterrupted success had never , in modern times , 24 LORD CHATHAM .
... been fought by our navy . Thirty - six sail of the line were taken or destroyed ; fifty frigates ; forty - five sloops of war . So brilliant a course of uninterrupted success had never , in modern times , 24 LORD CHATHAM .
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Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux. of uninterrupted success had never , in modern times , attended the arms of any nation carrying on war with other states equal to it in civilisation , and nearly a match in power . But it is a more ...
Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux. of uninterrupted success had never , in modern times , attended the arms of any nation carrying on war with other states equal to it in civilisation , and nearly a match in power . But it is a more ...
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... successful war . To become the fast friends of those colonies which we had planted and long retained under our protecting go- vernment , and thus both to profit ourselves and them the more by suffering them to be as independent as we ...
... successful war . To become the fast friends of those colonies which we had planted and long retained under our protecting go- vernment , and thus both to profit ourselves and them the more by suffering them to be as independent as we ...
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