Essays from Select British EloquenceSouthern Illinois University Press, 1963 - 359 pages |
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... measures for which Walpole was hated by the people and opposed by Mr. Pitt , time has shown that he was in the right and they in the wrong . It has also shown , that nearly all the great leaders of the Opposition , the Pulteneys and the ...
... measures for which Walpole was hated by the people and opposed by Mr. Pitt , time has shown that he was in the right and they in the wrong . It has also shown , that nearly all the great leaders of the Opposition , the Pulteneys and the ...
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... measures , and Mr. Fox gave them a measure stronger than any one of them had contem- plated . He cut the knot which politicians had so long endeav- ored to untie . He annulled the charter of the East India Com- pany and , after ...
... measures , and Mr. Fox gave them a measure stronger than any one of them had contem- plated . He cut the knot which politicians had so long endeav- ored to untie . He annulled the charter of the East India Com- pany and , after ...
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... measure . " It was tantamount , " as Lord Camden truly said , " to a commission of bankruptcy or a commission of lunacy against them ; it pronounced them to be unable to proceed in their trade , either from want of property or from want ...
... measure . " It was tantamount , " as Lord Camden truly said , " to a commission of bankruptcy or a commission of lunacy against them ; it pronounced them to be unable to proceed in their trade , either from want of property or from want ...
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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