Anecdote Biography: William Pitt, Earl of Chatham and Edmund BurkeR. Bentley, 1862 - 392 pages |
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... APPEARANCE IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS DEATH OF LORD CHATHAM 95 • 99 COPLEY'S PICTURE OF THE FALL OF LORD CHATHAM IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS · • 102 THE FUNERAL OF LORD CHATHAM MEMORIALS TO LORD CHATHAM 103 • 106 CHARACTERISTICS , RETROSPECTIVE ...
... APPEARANCE IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS DEATH OF LORD CHATHAM 95 • 99 COPLEY'S PICTURE OF THE FALL OF LORD CHATHAM IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS · • 102 THE FUNERAL OF LORD CHATHAM MEMORIALS TO LORD CHATHAM 103 • 106 CHARACTERISTICS , RETROSPECTIVE ...
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... APPEARANCE IN PARLIAMENT DEATH OF BURKE'S SON · GRANT OF A PENSION TO MR . BURKE . - HIS DEFENCE OF IT BURKE'S FARMING . 66 LETTER TO A NOBLE LORD . " - LETTERS ON A REGICIDE PEACE SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH AND MR . BURKE AT BEACONSFIELD ...
... APPEARANCE IN PARLIAMENT DEATH OF BURKE'S SON · GRANT OF A PENSION TO MR . BURKE . - HIS DEFENCE OF IT BURKE'S FARMING . 66 LETTER TO A NOBLE LORD . " - LETTERS ON A REGICIDE PEACE SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH AND MR . BURKE AT BEACONSFIELD ...
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... appearance was ever more bountifully gifted by nature for an orator . In his look and gesture grace and dignity were combined , but dignity presided ; the ' terrors of his beak , the lightning of his eye , ' were insuf- ferable . His ...
... appearance was ever more bountifully gifted by nature for an orator . In his look and gesture grace and dignity were combined , but dignity presided ; the ' terrors of his beak , the lightning of his eye , ' were insuf- ferable . His ...
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... appearance and elo- cution must have been imposing from the first ; for there was , certainly , nothing in the matter of his speech , if we may judge from the report of it , to put any one in mind of either Demosthenes or Cicero . Lord ...
... appearance and elo- cution must have been imposing from the first ; for there was , certainly , nothing in the matter of his speech , if we may judge from the report of it , to put any one in mind of either Demosthenes or Cicero . Lord ...
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... appeared in the Channel but it was expanded by popular rumour into a hostile flotilla . Our national confidence had dwindled under our pusillanimous rulers ; a little longer , and we might all have sunk to the level of Newcastle . " I ...
... appeared in the Channel but it was expanded by popular rumour into a hostile flotilla . Our national confidence had dwindled under our pusillanimous rulers ; a little longer , and we might all have sunk to the level of Newcastle . " I ...
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