A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen, Volume 5George Godfrey Cunningham A. Fullarton, 1855 |
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... interests , and the adhesion of a few of the great aristocratical families . Opposed to the whigs , and in some important points to each other , were the tories and Jacobites . Betwixt their notions of indefeasible right in the ...
... interests , and the adhesion of a few of the great aristocratical families . Opposed to the whigs , and in some important points to each other , were the tories and Jacobites . Betwixt their notions of indefeasible right in the ...
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... interests , and the adhesion of a few of the great aristocratical families . Opposed to the whigs , and in some important points to each other , were the tories and Jacobites . Betwixt their notions of indefeasible right in the ...
... interests , and the adhesion of a few of the great aristocratical families . Opposed to the whigs , and in some important points to each other , were the tories and Jacobites . Betwixt their notions of indefeasible right in the ...
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... interests of the empire . This plea , however , in the present humour of the nation and the king , sufficed ; and a British and Hanoverian army , commanded by the earl of Stair , marched to operate a diversion , on the side of France ...
... interests of the empire . This plea , however , in the present humour of the nation and the king , sufficed ; and a British and Hanoverian army , commanded by the earl of Stair , marched to operate a diversion , on the side of France ...
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... interest independent of the mother , and presumed , on some occasions , to have an opinion of their own . " ' The fall of Minorca , and still more the lamentable affair of Admiral Byng which followed that event , with the capitulation ...
... interest independent of the mother , and presumed , on some occasions , to have an opinion of their own . " ' The fall of Minorca , and still more the lamentable affair of Admiral Byng which followed that event , with the capitulation ...
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... interest of this country : but being past thirty when the Hanover succession took place , and having since experienced the violence of party , the injustice of popular clamour , the corruption of parliaments , and the selfish motives of ...
... interest of this country : but being past thirty when the Hanover succession took place , and having since experienced the violence of party , the injustice of popular clamour , the corruption of parliaments , and the selfish motives of ...
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