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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... Wilkes's sphere ; gaiety and gallantry were his peculiar objects . For some time he reigned the oracle of green rooms and the delight of taverns . In conjunction with other kindred spirits , as Paul Whitehead and Sir Francis Dashwood ...
... Wilkes's sphere ; gaiety and gallantry were his peculiar objects . For some time he reigned the oracle of green rooms and the delight of taverns . In conjunction with other kindred spirits , as Paul Whitehead and Sir Francis Dashwood ...
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... Wilkes , being by far * Copied from the Abbey of Theleme in Rabelais . See Book i . ch . 57 . ** These are transcribed and described ( from the pen , as is alleged , of Wilkes himself , ) in the " Foundling Hospital for Wit , " vol ...
... Wilkes , being by far * Copied from the Abbey of Theleme in Rabelais . See Book i . ch . 57 . ** These are transcribed and described ( from the pen , as is alleged , of Wilkes himself , ) in the " Foundling Hospital for Wit , " vol ...
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... Wilkes , viewed him as an excellent instrument of Op- position , and connived at , nay even prompted and en- couraged , the most rancorous productions of his pen . Pitt , on the other hand , lofty and unbending as ever , publicly ...
... Wilkes , viewed him as an excellent instrument of Op- position , and connived at , nay even prompted and en- couraged , the most rancorous productions of his pen . Pitt , on the other hand , lofty and unbending as ever , publicly ...
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... Wilkes for inordinate flattery , on the ground that when officiating at the late Coronation as Lord High Constable , and having to appear on horseback in Westminster Hall , he had backed his horse to the gate that he might not turn his ...
... Wilkes for inordinate flattery , on the ground that when officiating at the late Coronation as Lord High Constable , and having to appear on horseback in Westminster Hall , he had backed his horse to the gate that he might not turn his ...
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... Wilkes was the author , and from the first almost the avowed one , it may be observed that bitter and scurrilous as were its comments on the Royal expressions , it referred throughout to those expres- sions in a proper Constitutional ...
... Wilkes was the author , and from the first almost the avowed one , it may be observed that bitter and scurrilous as were its comments on the Royal expressions , it referred throughout to those expres- sions in a proper Constitutional ...
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