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Page 71
... Minister and North Chancellor of the Exchequer . A vote was taken on the tea - duty alone . Grafton with three others was ... Ministers swallow- ing worse rebuffs than this . The fault lay in George the Third's conception of the cabinet ...
... Minister and North Chancellor of the Exchequer . A vote was taken on the tea - duty alone . Grafton with three others was ... Ministers swallow- ing worse rebuffs than this . The fault lay in George the Third's conception of the cabinet ...
Page 99
... ministers except Germaine . It was a most satisfactory interview . Fox was clearly desperately keen for office : his unbridled language in Parliament had not marred his personal friend- ships with ministers : and best of all , he was ...
... ministers except Germaine . It was a most satisfactory interview . Fox was clearly desperately keen for office : his unbridled language in Parliament had not marred his personal friend- ships with ministers : and best of all , he was ...
Page 162
... ministers had to make pensions do the work of peerages . This was not pettiness on the King's part it was policy . He took the measure of his ministers very accurately . North , he said , " was a man composed entirely of negative ...
... ministers had to make pensions do the work of peerages . This was not pettiness on the King's part it was policy . He took the measure of his ministers very accurately . North , he said , " was a man composed entirely of negative ...
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