History of the Westminster Election ...1784 - 574 pages |
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... last the time arrives , when he endures the oppofite of fweet as well as sweet itself , and is furprized when told by a stranger , that his thop is disagree- able . This may prove to be our cafe . We at first , indignant , threw away ...
... last the time arrives , when he endures the oppofite of fweet as well as sweet itself , and is furprized when told by a stranger , that his thop is disagree- able . This may prove to be our cafe . We at first , indignant , threw away ...
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... last return from India . And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid , That the faid Directors hereby appointed fhall , once in every fix months , lay before the Proprietors of the faid United Company , in a general Court to be ...
... last return from India . And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid , That the faid Directors hereby appointed fhall , once in every fix months , lay before the Proprietors of the faid United Company , in a general Court to be ...
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... last endeavour was , that as Mr. Pitt in his anfwer to the request of the Duke of Portland , to explain the meaning of the preliminary equal , " before they fhould meet to negotiate an union , faid that the term would be beft explained ...
... last endeavour was , that as Mr. Pitt in his anfwer to the request of the Duke of Portland , to explain the meaning of the preliminary equal , " before they fhould meet to negotiate an union , faid that the term would be beft explained ...
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... last Wednesday : morning , weighed near feven pounds weight . If it was pure filver , it would prove a tolerable booty ; but it will be moft reafonable to fufpect that it contained an alloy of bafe metal ! When the Chancellor miffed the ...
... last Wednesday : morning , weighed near feven pounds weight . If it was pure filver , it would prove a tolerable booty ; but it will be moft reafonable to fufpect that it contained an alloy of bafe metal ! When the Chancellor miffed the ...
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... last shift of revenge . Public diftrefs is no object with them . If they are difappointed , and cannot fucceed in their wild and lawless fchemes , they are determined they fhall not fuffer alone ; but , as far as they are able , that ...
... last shift of revenge . Public diftrefs is no object with them . If they are difappointed , and cannot fucceed in their wild and lawless fchemes , they are determined they fhall not fuffer alone ; but , as far as they are able , that ...
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Addrefs ADVERTISEMENT affert affure againſt anfwer becauſe cafe Caffon Candidates canvafs caufe cauſe Charles Fox Charles James Fox clofe Committee conduct confequence confideration conftables Conftitution Court Covent Garden deferted defired Derry Duchefs Election Electors of Weſtminſter faid fame favour fcrutiny fecure feems fenfe fent fervants fervice feven feveral fhall fhould fide fince firft fome foon Fox's fpirit freedom friends ftand ftate ftill fubject fuccefs fuch fuppofed fupport fure Gentlemen High Bailiff himſelf honeft honour Hood and Sir Houfe of Commons Houſe Huftings Independent Electors intereft juftice Lady laft liberty Lord Hood Lord Mahon Lord North Majefty Majefty's meaſures Minifters moft moſt muft muſt neceffary obferved occafion oppofition pafs Parliament party perfons Pitt poll prefent purpoſe queftion reafon refolution Refolved refpectable reprefent riot Sir Cecil Wray thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe vote Weft Westminster whofe Wood's Hotel Wray's yeſterday
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