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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... called him , but Fox , as an early and warm friend of his Grace , interposed . The Duke , however , who had been , it was said , personally disobliged by the King * , and who had already resigned his Lord Chamber- lain's key , threw up ...
... called him , but Fox , as an early and warm friend of his Grace , interposed . The Duke , however , who had been , it was said , personally disobliged by the King * , and who had already resigned his Lord Chamber- lain's key , threw up ...
Page 27
... called out of abeyance , and thus he became Lord Le Despencer . Fox was likewise raised to the Upper House as Lord Holland the same title which had been already bestowed upon his wife . But an unseemly altercation - * This alludes to ...
... called out of abeyance , and thus he became Lord Le Despencer . Fox was likewise raised to the Upper House as Lord Holland the same title which had been already bestowed upon his wife . But an unseemly altercation - * This alludes to ...
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... called , " a " pious fraud . " " I can see the fraud plain enough , " cried Fox , " but where is the piety ? " * At last , however , the new - made Peer prevailed , and was allowed still to be Paymaster so long as power remained with ...
... called , " a " pious fraud . " " I can see the fraud plain enough , " cried Fox , " but where is the piety ? " * At last , however , the new - made Peer prevailed , and was allowed still to be Paymaster so long as power remained with ...
Page 33
... called in vain , hastened ostentatiously to pay a visit to Wilkes . The same compliment was shown him by the Duke of Grafton ; but in general men of character and station shrunk from any intercourse with this profligate adventurer ...
... called in vain , hastened ostentatiously to pay a visit to Wilkes . The same compliment was shown him by the Duke of Grafton ; but in general men of character and station shrunk from any intercourse with this profligate adventurer ...
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... called on to assume the office of Prime Minister , as Sir Spencer Compton in 1727 , Mr. Addington in 1801 , and Sir Charles Manners Sutton during a few days of negotiation in 1832 , the result in each instance has been far from satis ...
... called on to assume the office of Prime Minister , as Sir Spencer Compton in 1727 , Mr. Addington in 1801 , and Sir Charles Manners Sutton during a few days of negotiation in 1832 , the result in each instance has been far from satis ...
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