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Page 15
... object of concluding peace with France . And this was where Henry Fox came in . Fox was employed by Bute to force the treaty through the House of Commons , and never was a disagreeable task better done . Whoever voted against the treaty ...
... object of concluding peace with France . And this was where Henry Fox came in . Fox was employed by Bute to force the treaty through the House of Commons , and never was a disagreeable task better done . Whoever voted against the treaty ...
Page 73
... object , that certainly is one which every man not willing to sacrifice every object to a momentary and inglorious Peace must concur with me in thinking that this Country can never submit to ; should America succeed in that , the West ...
... object , that certainly is one which every man not willing to sacrifice every object to a momentary and inglorious Peace must concur with me in thinking that this Country can never submit to ; should America succeed in that , the West ...
Page 240
... object of making Fox recant was frustrated : but his secondary object of ejecting French sympathisers from the Whig party was well begun . Lough- borough soon joined the government as Lord Chancellor . The others hesitated for a few ...
... object of making Fox recant was frustrated : but his secondary object of ejecting French sympathisers from the Whig party was well begun . Lough- borough soon joined the government as Lord Chancellor . The others hesitated for a few ...
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