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... England , re- taining that office until 1844. With the elevation of Reschid Pasha to be Grand Vizier , Aali rose to be Foreign Minister , and participated in all the political for- tunes , good and bad , of his patron from 1846 to 1852 ...
... England , re- taining that office until 1844. With the elevation of Reschid Pasha to be Grand Vizier , Aali rose to be Foreign Minister , and participated in all the political for- tunes , good and bad , of his patron from 1846 to 1852 ...
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... England of this ministry , he remained without became emulous of seconding . The office for some years , and resumed the Sultan has been for some time past en- Foreign Department on Sir Robert Peel deavouring , by reforming the ...
... England of this ministry , he remained without became emulous of seconding . The office for some years , and resumed the Sultan has been for some time past en- Foreign Department on Sir Robert Peel deavouring , by reforming the ...
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... England , if the juris- He married , in 1841 , the Princess Marie diction of the latter had extended to all Alexandrowna , daughter of Louis IV . , classes of judicial proceedings without Grand Duke of Hesse , by whom he has regard to ...
... England , if the juris- He married , in 1841 , the Princess Marie diction of the latter had extended to all Alexandrowna , daughter of Louis IV . , classes of judicial proceedings without Grand Duke of Hesse , by whom he has regard to ...
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... England " appeared in 1830 , in which the author seemed to apprehend that scientific re- search had seen its best days in Great Britain , an idea which he has without doubt withdrawn since the publication of that work . He had ...
... England " appeared in 1830 , in which the author seemed to apprehend that scientific re- search had seen its best days in Great Britain , an idea which he has without doubt withdrawn since the publication of that work . He had ...
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... England and Scotland . Of the " Notes " on the New Testament , more than four hundred and fifty thousand copies have been sold in the United States , and it is supposed an equal or larger number has been dis- posed of in this country ...
... England and Scotland . Of the " Notes " on the New Testament , more than four hundred and fifty thousand copies have been sold in the United States , and it is supposed an equal or larger number has been dis- posed of in this country ...
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Page 81 - In 1837 he was called to the House of Lords, on the death of his father. The great fortune to which he became heir he employed in improving the condition of his regiment. He acquired a good deal of notoriety in connexion with the "black bottle...
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Page 84 - Geometry," to which he prefixed an "Essay on Proportion," and also published his translation of Goethe's " Wilhelm Meister," a work which betrayed a direction of reading destined to influence materially his future career. On the completion of this translation he commenced his