William Pitt: By Charles WhibleyW. Blackwood, 1906 - 347 sider |
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... attacks and more concealed in its operation than the power of pre- rogative . " He thought no object could be " so fair , so probable , or so flatter- ing " as economy . At the same time , he would jealously guard the right of the ...
... attacks and more concealed in its operation than the power of pre- rogative . " He thought no object could be " so fair , so probable , or so flatter- ing " as economy . At the same time , he would jealously guard the right of the ...
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... attacked the war both in its inception and in its conduct , and the subject gave him a far better chance for emphasis and invective than the somewhat arid topic of finance . He belaboured North and his colleagues with all the energy of ...
... attacked the war both in its inception and in its conduct , and the subject gave him a far better chance for emphasis and invective than the somewhat arid topic of finance . He belaboured North and his colleagues with all the energy of ...
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... attack . Thus he put the question in its simplest form : " Will you change your Ministers and keep the empire , or keep your Ministers and lose the kingdom ? " But while he was resolved that the Government should resign , there was no ...
... attack . Thus he put the question in its simplest form : " Will you change your Ministers and keep the empire , or keep your Ministers and lose the kingdom ? " But while he was resolved that the Government should resign , there was no ...
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... attack , it need hardly be said , was factious and unscrupulous . They jested , they raved , they ranted , and to no purpose . Pitt met them without fear , and repelled them without favour . Nothing is more remarkable in the debates of ...
... attack , it need hardly be said , was factious and unscrupulous . They jested , they raved , they ranted , and to no purpose . Pitt met them without fear , and repelled them without favour . Nothing is more remarkable in the debates of ...
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... attacked his new colleague with all his brilliant talent for vituperation . He had prayed that the Ministers should hear of the calamities of the American War at the tribunal of justice and expiate them on the public scaffold . A brief ...
... attacked his new colleague with all his brilliant talent for vituperation . He had prayed that the Ministers should hear of the calamities of the American War at the tribunal of justice and expiate them on the public scaffold . A brief ...
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