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... whigs and tories alike were eager to find such support for their opinions as might be derived from history . Whigs , for example , would turn to Oldmixon or 1 Euvres , vol . xxiv , p . 137 ; see Gibbon's Memoirs , p . 295 , ed . Hill ...
... whigs and tories alike were eager to find such support for their opinions as might be derived from history . Whigs , for example , would turn to Oldmixon or 1 Euvres , vol . xxiv , p . 137 ; see Gibbon's Memoirs , p . 295 , ed . Hill ...
Page 292
... whig sentiment . Hume jeered at his whiggery and his piety ; Johnson was offended by his whiggery ; and Gibbon , referring to a review of the book which he had written in Mémoires Littéraires de la Grande Bretagne , declared that the ...
... whig sentiment . Hume jeered at his whiggery and his piety ; Johnson was offended by his whiggery ; and Gibbon , referring to a review of the book which he had written in Mémoires Littéraires de la Grande Bretagne , declared that the ...
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... whig feud which called forth their exertions , and the splendid success of the great commoner's ministry almost suc- ceeded in silencing criticism . It required a new ferment of public opinion , a new conflict of principles and a ...
... whig feud which called forth their exertions , and the splendid success of the great commoner's ministry almost suc- ceeded in silencing criticism . It required a new ferment of public opinion , a new conflict of principles and a ...
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Sterne and the Novel of his Times | 46 |
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