A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen, Volume 5George Godfrey Cunningham A. Fullarton, 1855 |
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... political activity , abounding in cabals and intrigues , and remarkable for the establishment and consolidation of that internal system of go- vernment , by which the affairs of this country have been conducted almost up to the present ...
... political activity , abounding in cabals and intrigues , and remarkable for the establishment and consolidation of that internal system of go- vernment , by which the affairs of this country have been conducted almost up to the present ...
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... politics and literature , belong almost equally to the reign of the first George , and the difficulty we found in drawing any line of demarcation betwixt the two reigns considered as political and literary eras , we have already in ...
... politics and literature , belong almost equally to the reign of the first George , and the difficulty we found in drawing any line of demarcation betwixt the two reigns considered as political and literary eras , we have already in ...
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George Godfrey Cunningham. I. - POLITICAL SERIES . George EE . BORN A. D. 1683. - DIED A. D. 1760 . GEORGE AUGUSTUS , son of George I. , by Sophia Dorothea of Lune- burg - Zell , was born in ... POLITICAL SERIES . POLITICAL SERIES George II.
George Godfrey Cunningham. I. - POLITICAL SERIES . George EE . BORN A. D. 1683. - DIED A. D. 1760 . GEORGE AUGUSTUS , son of George I. , by Sophia Dorothea of Lune- burg - Zell , was born in ... POLITICAL SERIES . POLITICAL SERIES George II.
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... political helm ; but , with the full consent of the king , an army of 16,000 men was soon after sent to Flanders , to take part in the quarrels that were then beginning to break out on the continent . France , in despite of the ...
... political helm ; but , with the full consent of the king , an army of 16,000 men was soon after sent to Flanders , to take part in the quarrels that were then beginning to break out on the continent . France , in despite of the ...
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... political courage seems somewhat problematical : however , it is a fault on the right side ; for had he always been as firm and undaunted in the closet as he showed himself at Oudenarde and Dettingen , he might not have proved quite so ...
... political courage seems somewhat problematical : however , it is a fault on the right side ; for had he always been as firm and undaunted in the closet as he showed himself at Oudenarde and Dettingen , he might not have proved quite so ...
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