A History of the Four Georges, Том 2Chatto & Windus, 1890 |
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... course of a scuffle with the Spanish revenue officers who tried to search his vessel . The point of the story is that Jenkins said the ear was deliberately severed , and that the severed part was flung in his face with the insulting ...
... course of a scuffle with the Spanish revenue officers who tried to search his vessel . The point of the story is that Jenkins said the ear was deliberately severed , and that the severed part was flung in his face with the insulting ...
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... course of this history ; we shall see how utterly un- just and absurd is the common censure which sets him down as a literary and political fribble ; we shall see that his speeches were so good that Horace Wal- pole declares that the ...
... course of this history ; we shall see how utterly un- just and absurd is the common censure which sets him down as a literary and political fribble ; we shall see that his speeches were so good that Horace Wal- pole declares that the ...
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... course , were duly reported to Walpole's ears . Perhaps Chesterfield thought he stood too high to be in danger from Walpole's hand . If he did think so , he soon found out his mistake . Walpole's hand struck him down in the most ...
... course , were duly reported to Walpole's ears . Perhaps Chesterfield thought he stood too high to be in danger from Walpole's hand . If he did think so , he soon found out his mistake . Walpole's hand struck him down in the most ...
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... course of things he ought to have had the position of Lord Chancellor . But Talbot was only great as a Chancery lawyer , and knew little or nothing of common law , and it would have been out of the question to make him Lord Chief ...
... course of things he ought to have had the position of Lord Chancellor . But Talbot was only great as a Chancery lawyer , and knew little or nothing of common law , and it would have been out of the question to make him Lord Chief ...
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... the House . ' The general elections were approaching ; the Par- liament then sitting had nearly run its course . The Patriots had been making every possible preparation for a decisive struggle against Walpole . They had been.
... the House . ' The general elections were approaching ; the Par- liament then sitting had nearly run its course . The Patriots had been making every possible preparation for a decisive struggle against Walpole . They had been.
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