History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles: 1713 - 1783 : In Seven Volumes, Volume 2Tauchnitz, 1853 |
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... says the annalist of trade , " thus are " the meanest materials , the clay and flint stones under our " feet , converted into objects of the greatest utility and " beauty . " " 2 * Still far more essential was the progress which the ...
... says the annalist of trade , " thus are " the meanest materials , the clay and flint stones under our " feet , converted into objects of the greatest utility and " beauty . " " 2 * Still far more essential was the progress which the ...
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... say realities , when a loud burst of laughter from the whole House interrupted him . On sitting down he exclaimed to Onslow , son of the late Speaker : " Did " you ever see a man in my situation so treated ? " Another day besides , when ...
... say realities , when a loud burst of laughter from the whole House interrupted him . On sitting down he exclaimed to Onslow , son of the late Speaker : " Did " you ever see a man in my situation so treated ? " Another day besides , when ...
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... say , Sir , let him tell me where ! " While dwelling for some time on this phrase in a peevish and mono- tonous voice , Pitt , who sat opposite , and who had been pro- voked by Grenville's reflections on the profusion of the war ...
... say , Sir , let him tell me where ! " While dwelling for some time on this phrase in a peevish and mono- tonous voice , Pitt , who sat opposite , and who had been pro- voked by Grenville's reflections on the profusion of the war ...
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... says Mr. Rig- by , who was present . This scene fixed on Grenville during several years " the Gentle Shepherd " as a nick - name , which in the opinion of those who used it had the more point and pungency from the contrast between the ...
... says Mr. Rig- by , who was present . This scene fixed on Grenville during several years " the Gentle Shepherd " as a nick - name , which in the opinion of those who used it had the more point and pungency from the contrast between the ...
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... say of himself in a laughing strain , that though he was the ugliest man in Eng- land , he wanted nothing to make him even with the hand- somest but half an hour at starting . Politics indeed seemed at first wholly alien from Wilkes's ...
... say of himself in a laughing strain , that though he was the ugliest man in Eng- land , he wanted nothing to make him even with the hand- somest but half an hour at starting . Politics indeed seemed at first wholly alien from Wilkes's ...
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