A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen, Volume 5George Godfrey Cunningham A. Fullarton, 1855 |
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... 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 hour . The fact is , the materials for modern English history ...
... 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 hour . The fact is , the materials for modern English history ...
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... remarkable as the audacity of the advance . With Ligonier's army on one flank , and Cumberland's in the rear , - surrounded by hostile forces , -and without one hope remaining of countenance or assistance from the Jacobites of England ...
... remarkable as the audacity of the advance . With Ligonier's army on one flank , and Cumberland's in the rear , - surrounded by hostile forces , -and without one hope remaining of countenance or assistance from the Jacobites of England ...
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... remarkable only for its servility and sycophancy , and for its being afterwards employed by the thrifty poet to compliment a very different character , Lord Bute , by the mere substitution of his name in place of the minister's . Find ...
... remarkable only for its servility and sycophancy , and for its being afterwards employed by the thrifty poet to compliment a very different character , Lord Bute , by the mere substitution of his name in place of the minister's . Find ...
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... remarkable manner , having sailed in a fog through the midst of a French fleet then cruising in the channel . In short , throughout the whole of this remarkable voyage , he experienced the truth of the saying , which he afterwards chose ...
... remarkable manner , having sailed in a fog through the midst of a French fleet then cruising in the channel . In short , throughout the whole of this remarkable voyage , he experienced the truth of the saying , which he afterwards chose ...
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... remarkable in all her transactions with foreign powers , the cus- tomary formality of declaring war was unjustifiably delayed ; and , in the autumn of 1755 , when France least expected such a blow , a resolu- tion was taken in council ...
... remarkable in all her transactions with foreign powers , the cus- tomary formality of declaring war was unjustifiably delayed ; and , in the autumn of 1755 , when France least expected such a blow , a resolu- tion was taken in council ...
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