A History of the Four Georges, Том 2Chatto & Windus, 1890 |
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... believe the accounts of some of the contemporaries who came closest to him and ought to have known him best , Chesterfield had scarcely one great or good quality of heart . His intellect no one disputed , but no one seems to have ...
... believe the accounts of some of the contemporaries who came closest to him and ought to have known him best , Chesterfield had scarcely one great or good quality of heart . His intellect no one disputed , but no one seems to have ...
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... believe himself , with all his personal defects , actually irresistible to the most gifted and beautiful woman , and that he was menda- cious enough to proclaim himself the successful lover of women who would not have given ear to his ...
... believe himself , with all his personal defects , actually irresistible to the most gifted and beautiful woman , and that he was menda- cious enough to proclaim himself the successful lover of women who would not have given ear to his ...
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... believe that any painter coolly converted a hideous face into a rather hand- some one and went wholly unreproved by the public opinion of his time . The truth probably is that Chesterfield's bitter , sarcastic , and unsparing tongue ...
... believe that any painter coolly converted a hideous face into a rather hand- some one and went wholly unreproved by the public opinion of his time . The truth probably is that Chesterfield's bitter , sarcastic , and unsparing tongue ...
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... believe the statesman to have been only superficial and worthless who anti- cipated in his Irish policy the convictions of Burke and the ideas of Fox . The time , however , of Chesterfield's Irish adminis- tration is yet to come . At ...
... believe the statesman to have been only superficial and worthless who anti- cipated in his Irish policy the convictions of Burke and the ideas of Fox . The time , however , of Chesterfield's Irish adminis- tration is yet to come . At ...
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... believe , ' added Mr. Wynn , ' I could without much difficulty name some who are now in the same situation . ' No doubt he could . ( Sir William Wyndham came on to speak . Wynd- ham was now , of course , the close ally of Bolingbroke ...
... believe , ' added Mr. Wynn , ' I could without much difficulty name some who are now in the same situation . ' No doubt he could . ( Sir William Wyndham came on to speak . Wynd- ham was now , of course , the close ally of Bolingbroke ...
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