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Page 130
... Pitt , and there is little William Pitt , not eight years old , and really the cleverest child I ever saw , and brought up so strictly and so proper in his behaviour , that , mark my words , that little boy will be a thorn in Charles's ...
... Pitt , and there is little William Pitt , not eight years old , and really the cleverest child I ever saw , and brought up so strictly and so proper in his behaviour , that , mark my words , that little boy will be a thorn in Charles's ...
Page 301
... Pitt was fully as much in earnest on it as Fox . Fox , moreover , gave himself away . Adding- ton was the principal opponent of emancipation . He soon left Pitt's cabinet in a huff : and Fox was making eager advances to him within a few ...
... Pitt was fully as much in earnest on it as Fox . Fox , moreover , gave himself away . Adding- ton was the principal opponent of emancipation . He soon left Pitt's cabinet in a huff : and Fox was making eager advances to him within a few ...
Page 305
... Pitt was a bad diplomatist and a vile war - minister : but it was not on these grounds that he impugned his statesmanship . It was as a contravener of Whig principles that Fox attacked Pitt : it was because he " unfortunately lent his ...
... Pitt was a bad diplomatist and a vile war - minister : but it was not on these grounds that he impugned his statesmanship . It was as a contravener of Whig principles that Fox attacked Pitt : it was because he " unfortunately lent his ...
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