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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... PITT IN OPPOSITION . -were yet all but overlooked by their contemporaries amidst the stir and strife of their party politics . To these I must now return . Lord Bute had succeeded in concluding the war . He had succeeded in obtaining ...
... PITT IN OPPOSITION . -were yet all but overlooked by their contemporaries amidst the stir and strife of their party politics . To these I must now return . Lord Bute had succeeded in concluding the war . He had succeeded in obtaining ...
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... Pitt borne along in the arms of his servants . He was set down at the Bar from whence , by the aid of a crutch and of several friends , he crawled to his seat on the front Opposition bench . His countenance appeared emaciated and ...
... Pitt borne along in the arms of his servants . He was set down at the Bar from whence , by the aid of a crutch and of several friends , he crawled to his seat on the front Opposition bench . His countenance appeared emaciated and ...
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... Pitt , moved an Ad- dress to the King to prefer officers on half pay to those whose commissions were more recent , Fox , as the Ministerial leader , opposed it , but in vain . Another day , on a Committee of Accounts , Beckford having ...
... Pitt , moved an Ad- dress to the King to prefer officers on half pay to those whose commissions were more recent , Fox , as the Ministerial leader , opposed it , but in vain . Another day , on a Committee of Accounts , Beckford having ...
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... Pitt's friend , Alderman Beckford , against his own wishes , as Lord Mayor , and which was well prepared to take part against anything or everything emanating from Lord Bute , forth- with raised an angry cry , and sent petitions against ...
... Pitt's friend , Alderman Beckford , against his own wishes , as Lord Mayor , and which was well prepared to take part against anything or everything emanating from Lord Bute , forth- with raised an angry cry , and sent petitions against ...
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... Pitt thundered against the intru- sion of hired officers into private dwellings , and quoted the proud old maxim that every Englishman's house was , or should be , his castle . George Grenville , who had hitherto stood sullenly aloof ...
... Pitt thundered against the intru- sion of hired officers into private dwellings , and quoted the proud old maxim that every Englishman's house was , or should be , his castle . George Grenville , who had hitherto stood sullenly aloof ...
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