William Pitt: By Charles WhibleyW. Blackwood, 1906 - 347 sider |
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... side is a faithful servant of the Crown ; on the other an ambitious and unprincipled con- spirator . At length the King , who had been missing , reappears , resumes his power , and rewards the faithful defender of his rights . A reader ...
... side is a faithful servant of the Crown ; on the other an ambitious and unprincipled con- spirator . At length the King , who had been missing , reappears , resumes his power , and rewards the faithful defender of his rights . A reader ...
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... side is overwhelming , and the libel may fittingly be refuted here . " Lord Grenville ( himself an excellent Grecian ) has often told me , " wrote Wellesley to Croker , " that he con- sidered Mr Pitt to be the best Greek scholar ( not ...
... side is overwhelming , and the libel may fittingly be refuted here . " Lord Grenville ( himself an excellent Grecian ) has often told me , " wrote Wellesley to Croker , " that he con- sidered Mr Pitt to be the best Greek scholar ( not ...
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... side could be answered . But it is clear that Pitt " But it was to his father that he listened with the greatest admiration . " His first speech lasted an hour , " he wrote to his mother in 1775 , " and the second half an hour - surely ...
... side could be answered . But it is clear that Pitt " But it was to his father that he listened with the greatest admiration . " His first speech lasted an hour , " he wrote to his mother in 1775 , " and the second half an hour - surely ...
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... side , could Pitt have championed successfully the cause of England ? The journey to France , however , was an interlude . As Pitt had surrendered literature to the claims of politics , so he renounced the pleasures of foreign travel ...
... side , could Pitt have championed successfully the cause of England ? The journey to France , however , was an interlude . As Pitt had surrendered literature to the claims of politics , so he renounced the pleasures of foreign travel ...
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... side . His youth , " he allowed , " was very excep- tional to that situation , yet he trusted that the system of his conduct , and his strict discharge of the duties of his high office , would in a great measure make away with what he ...
... side . His youth , " he allowed , " was very excep- tional to that situation , yet he trusted that the system of his conduct , and his strict discharge of the duties of his high office , would in a great measure make away with what he ...
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