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Page 47
... became in 1718 the first Earl Cowper . He had declared for the Prince of Orange in 1688 , and , having successively been Recorder of Colchester , Public Prosecutor , Lord Keeper , and Commissioner for the Union with Scotland , became ...
... became in 1718 the first Earl Cowper . He had declared for the Prince of Orange in 1688 , and , having successively been Recorder of Colchester , Public Prosecutor , Lord Keeper , and Commissioner for the Union with Scotland , became ...
Page 125
... became involved in two notorious controversies during his career . Feeling ran strong on both of the opposing sides , and has so coloured all available estimates of him that it is provokingly difficult to form a clear impression of the ...
... became involved in two notorious controversies during his career . Feeling ran strong on both of the opposing sides , and has so coloured all available estimates of him that it is provokingly difficult to form a clear impression of the ...
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... became the master of a slave- ship . Interspersed with the plain records of fact are the author's reflections upon the almost total depravity into which he fell , though never quite to the extent of forgetting his mother's influence and ...
... became the master of a slave- ship . Interspersed with the plain records of fact are the author's reflections upon the almost total depravity into which he fell , though never quite to the extent of forgetting his mother's influence and ...
Contents
Introductory | 11 |
An Extramundane and his World 22535 | 45 |
The Law Student | 65 |
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