George Selwyn and His Contemporaries: With Memoirs and Notes, Volume 4Bickers, 1882 "George Augustus Selwyn (11 August 1719?25 January 1791, age 71) was a Member of Parliament (MP) in the Parliament of Great Britain. Selwyn spent 44 years in the House of Commons without being recorded as making a speech. He put his electoral interest, as the person who controlled both seats in Ludgershall and one in Gloucester, at the disposal of the King's ministers (whoever they might be), because he was financially dependent on obtaining (a total of three) sinecure offices and a pension, which offset his expenses of bribing the electorate, and his gambling debts."--Wikipedia |
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... wish her happy she should not have made so heavy a fuss as she did about making me acquainted with it , and fearing my anger , and I do not know what ; especially as she is going to be married to heaven . All the portion she asks is ...
... wish her happy she should not have made so heavy a fuss as she did about making me acquainted with it , and fearing my anger , and I do not know what ; especially as she is going to be married to heaven . All the portion she asks is ...
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... wish the thing were done , for fear of accidents , though perhaps it were better done at any time than when I am in Paris , lest it should ever come to be known where it ought not ; but to slight such an opportunity , would it not be ...
... wish the thing were done , for fear of accidents , though perhaps it were better done at any time than when I am in Paris , lest it should ever come to be known where it ought not ; but to slight such an opportunity , would it not be ...
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... wish that my letters and your answers could fly ociores euro , instead of being confined to the wretched pace of the tardy ungrateful post ! Sir ! your humble servant ! I wish you a good night ; -for , as the Nabob of Arcot said , what ...
... wish that my letters and your answers could fly ociores euro , instead of being confined to the wretched pace of the tardy ungrateful post ! Sir ! your humble servant ! I wish you a good night ; -for , as the Nabob of Arcot said , what ...
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... wish to please him and one another . And two curious doctors they are ; each despising his own profession and that of the other , and both thanking God that they are not so great rogues as the lawyers . 66 I am coming home , sir , by ...
... wish to please him and one another . And two curious doctors they are ; each despising his own profession and that of the other , and both thanking God that they are not so great rogues as the lawyers . 66 I am coming home , sir , by ...
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... wishes , * real or imaginary . Thank heaven ! it is not in her power to hurt you there ; though she would consequently endeavour , if she could , to bring every evil upon him whose throat she wishes to be cut . From this moment how I ...
... wishes , * real or imaginary . Thank heaven ! it is not in her power to hurt you there ; though she would consequently endeavour , if she could , to bring every evil upon him whose throat she wishes to be cut . From this moment how I ...
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