The Life and Times of Ralph Allen of Prior Park, Bath, Introduced by a Short Account of Lyncombe and Widcombe, with Notices of His Contemporaries, Including Bishop Warburton, Bennet of Widcombe House, Beau Nash, Etc |
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... Pitt Correspondence in Relation to the Contemplated Vacancy by the Advancement of Henley The One - Headed Corporation Caricatures Allen's Retirement from Public Life CORRESPONDENCE WITH MR . STRAHAN 189 Local Postal Arrangements ...
... Pitt Correspondence in Relation to the Contemplated Vacancy by the Advancement of Henley The One - Headed Corporation Caricatures Allen's Retirement from Public Life CORRESPONDENCE WITH MR . STRAHAN 189 Local Postal Arrangements ...
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... Pitt ( Lord Chatham ) , the correspondence contained in this Bio- graphy will show ; it is sufficient here to quote this one sentence from Pitt's letter to Mrs. Allen on the occasion of her husband's death : " I fear not all the ...
... Pitt ( Lord Chatham ) , the correspondence contained in this Bio- graphy will show ; it is sufficient here to quote this one sentence from Pitt's letter to Mrs. Allen on the occasion of her husband's death : " I fear not all the ...
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... Pitt were co - ordinate leaders of a remarkably strong Whig Ministry , which had achieved a rapid succession of ... Pitt and then Newcastle , in the midst of the Seven Years ' War , and to patch up , in 1763 , what Pitt considered an ...
... Pitt were co - ordinate leaders of a remarkably strong Whig Ministry , which had achieved a rapid succession of ... Pitt and then Newcastle , in the midst of the Seven Years ' War , and to patch up , in 1763 , what Pitt considered an ...
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... Pitt , who was at that time Member for Bath , and owed his seat there to Allen's influence , took offence at the term adequate , " so repugnant to my unalterable opinion , and fully declared by me in Parliament " , that he resolved to ...
... Pitt , who was at that time Member for Bath , and owed his seat there to Allen's influence , took offence at the term adequate , " so repugnant to my unalterable opinion , and fully declared by me in Parliament " , that he resolved to ...
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... Pitt the sum of one thousand pounds " , etc. In a month or two afterwards he was forced by ill- health to retire from the Corporation ; and happily his dark days were shortened , for before the close of the year following the untoward ...
... Pitt the sum of one thousand pounds " , etc. In a month or two afterwards he was forced by ill- health to retire from the Corporation ; and happily his dark days were shortened , for before the close of the year following the untoward ...
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