Essays from Select British EloquenceSouthern Illinois University Press, 1963 - 359 pages |
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... English had always looked with jealousy upon any intermeddling with trade on the part of Scotland . They had crushed her African and India Company by their selfish op- position , and had left her Darien settlement of twelve hundred ...
... English had always looked with jealousy upon any intermeddling with trade on the part of Scotland . They had crushed her African and India Company by their selfish op- position , and had left her Darien settlement of twelve hundred ...
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... English embassador from Paris on the tenth of August , 1792 ( when Louis XVI became vir- tually a prisoner ) , before the occurrence of any of these events . He suspended the functions of M. Chauvelin , the French embassador at London ...
... English embassador from Paris on the tenth of August , 1792 ( when Louis XVI became vir- tually a prisoner ) , before the occurrence of any of these events . He suspended the functions of M. Chauvelin , the French embassador at London ...
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... English politicians . These last foibles may be thought interesting as the remains of natural character , not destroyed by refined so- ciety and political affairs . " In some of the amusements or tasks of his boyhood there are passages ...
... English politicians . These last foibles may be thought interesting as the remains of natural character , not destroyed by refined so- ciety and political affairs . " In some of the amusements or tasks of his boyhood there are passages ...
Contents
SIR JOHN ELIOT | 3 |
SIR ROBERT WALPOLE | 19 |
LORD MANSFIELD | 69 |
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Essays from Select British Eloquence: Landmarks in Rhetoric and Public Address Chauncey Allen Goodrich No preview available - 2012 |
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