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Page 136
... Whig administration was clearly unavoidable , but the King would not recognise the existence of what he called the Phalanx . He still clung forlornly to his tenet of measures , not men : he still hoped to reconstruct his fabric of ...
... Whig administration was clearly unavoidable , but the King would not recognise the existence of what he called the Phalanx . He still clung forlornly to his tenet of measures , not men : he still hoped to reconstruct his fabric of ...
Page 213
... Whig the gentleman for the rest of his life . " As it happened , Pitt was exceptionally well prepared for this emergency , for at the age of thirteen ( only sixteen years before ) he had written a tragedy in blank verse entitled ...
... Whig the gentleman for the rest of his life . " As it happened , Pitt was exceptionally well prepared for this emergency , for at the age of thirteen ( only sixteen years before ) he had written a tragedy in blank verse entitled ...
Page 235
... Whig party . He had deferred to his leadership without question . If Fox chose to throw up Whig principles , and become a Jacobin , it was not for his old teacher to follow him into that labyrinth of fallacies . His readiness to part ...
... Whig party . He had deferred to his leadership without question . If Fox chose to throw up Whig principles , and become a Jacobin , it was not for his old teacher to follow him into that labyrinth of fallacies . His readiness to part ...
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Addington admiration affairs America better Bill Brooks's Burke Burke's cabinet Chancellor Charles Fox Chatham coalition conduct constitution Crown danger debate declared defence Duke election enemy England favour fighting Fitzpatrick foreign Fox's Foxites France French French revolution friends George the Third Germaine Grafton Grenville hands heart honour Horace Walpole House of Commons India Jacobinism Keppel King King's knew leader liberty lived London Lord Chancellor Lord Holland Lord North Lord Shelburne lost majority ment ministry months motion Napoleon nation never Newmarket once opposed opposition Otchakoff Paris Parliament Parliamentary peace Pitt Pitt's political politicians popular Portland Prime Minister Prince of Wales principles proposed public opinion question reform refused resigned revolution Richmond Rockingham royal Shelburne Shelburne's Sheridan speech success Talleyrand thing thought Thurlow tion Tory Treasury treaty vote Walpole Westminster Whig party whole Wilkes Windham wrote