Life of ... William Pitt, Հատոր 1 |
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... majority . " " Grafton Street , 5 Feb. 26 , 1780 . " You will not , I believe , be sorry to hear that in the House of Commons yesterday , on a motion for the List of Pensions , which the Ministry strenuously opposed , the minority was ...
... majority . " " Grafton Street , 5 Feb. 26 , 1780 . " You will not , I believe , be sorry to hear that in the House of Commons yesterday , on a motion for the List of Pensions , which the Ministry strenuously opposed , the minority was ...
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... majority against a Minister . I was in the gallery till near three this morning , when this great phenomenon took place . The debate was the most interesting imaginable , and not the less so from Sir Fletcher Norton's unexpected and ...
... majority against a Minister . I was in the gallery till near three this morning , when this great phenomenon took place . The debate was the most interesting imaginable , and not the less so from Sir Fletcher Norton's unexpected and ...
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... majority of 233 against 190 . It deserves to be noted that warmly as the merits of Pitt's first speech were acknowledged by his hearers , those merits are scarcely to be traced in the meagre report of it which alone remains . So ...
... majority of 233 against 190 . It deserves to be noted that warmly as the merits of Pitt's first speech were acknowledged by his hearers , those merits are scarcely to be traced in the meagre report of it which alone remains . So ...
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... majority . Mr. Burke could not be withheld from taking part in this debate or from re- 5 As published by Lord Albemarle in his Memoirs of Lord Rocking- ham , vol . ii . p . 395 . verting to the former question . Thus in a private E 2 ...
... majority . Mr. Burke could not be withheld from taking part in this debate or from re- 5 As published by Lord Albemarle in his Memoirs of Lord Rocking- ham , vol . ii . p . 395 . verting to the former question . Thus in a private E 2 ...
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... majority of 26. " This incapacitating clause contained , " said Lord Mahon , " the very pith and marrow of my Bill , " which thus muti- lated he declined any further to proceed with . On the 25th of June both Fox and Pitt spoke in sup ...
... majority of 26. " This incapacitating clause contained , " said Lord Mahon , " the very pith and marrow of my Bill , " which thus muti- lated he declined any further to proceed with . On the 25th of June both Fox and Pitt spoke in sup ...
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Էջ 147 - Constitution. I wish to see the Crown great and respectable, but if the present Bill should pass, it will be no longer worthy of a man of honour to wear.
Էջ 283 - Above the rest, majestically great, Behold the infant Atlas of the state, The matchless miracle of modern days ; In whom Britannia to the world displays A sight to make surrounding nations stare ; A kingdom trusted to a schoolboy's care...
Էջ 2 - Indeed," says Horace Walpole, in his lively style, " one is forced to ask every " morning what victory there is, for fear of missing " one !