The Quarterly Review, Volume 105William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1859 |
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... importance to obtain possession of the secret instructions given to one of his colleagues . All other means having failed , he carried to a suc- cessful issue an intrigue with Madame de a near relation of the minister in question , and ...
... importance to obtain possession of the secret instructions given to one of his colleagues . All other means having failed , he carried to a suc- cessful issue an intrigue with Madame de a near relation of the minister in question , and ...
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... important fools every day taking the lead , and becoming men of consequence . I do not believe Lord T. and Mr. P. ever had any quarrel , and think that the former resigned because they would not dissolve the Parliament . I may however ...
... important fools every day taking the lead , and becoming men of consequence . I do not believe Lord T. and Mr. P. ever had any quarrel , and think that the former resigned because they would not dissolve the Parliament . I may however ...
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... important and controverted a measure . He accordingly agreed to shut himself up with me for ten days at Wimbledon , and attend to that business only . Charles Grant staid with us a great part of the time . After a most ininute and ...
... important and controverted a measure . He accordingly agreed to shut himself up with me for ten days at Wimbledon , and attend to that business only . Charles Grant staid with us a great part of the time . After a most ininute and ...
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... importance . They are thus described by Lord Cornwallis : - ' Those who are called principal persons here are men who have been raised into consequence only by having the entire disposal of the patronage of the Crown in return for their ...
... importance . They are thus described by Lord Cornwallis : - ' Those who are called principal persons here are men who have been raised into consequence only by having the entire disposal of the patronage of the Crown in return for their ...
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... importance of the people , and their own fancied supe- riority over all the rest of the world . Within the last hundred years a traveller has described an entertainment called ' The Creation of the World , ' presented on the stage at ...
... importance of the people , and their own fancied supe- riority over all the rest of the world . Within the last hundred years a traveller has described an entertainment called ' The Creation of the World , ' presented on the stage at ...
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