Mr. T. Burt. Lord Hartington. Sir R. Peel. Mr. Chamberlain. Mr. Roebuck. Mr. Fawcett. Sir S. Northcote. 'Punch.' Prince Gortschakoff. Sir W. Lawson. Mr. Forster. Mr. Chaplin. Mr. Goschen. Mr. Parnell. The speakerGriffith & Farran, 1880 - Great Britain |
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... career has been of no small advantage to him in all that he has since accomplished . Four or five years later , the opportunity of quit- ting the pit , and laying aside the ' pick ' in favour of the pen , was presented to him . He was ...
... career has been of no small advantage to him in all that he has since accomplished . Four or five years later , the opportunity of quit- ting the pit , and laying aside the ' pick ' in favour of the pen , was presented to him . He was ...
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... career . But this preferment , it need hardly be said , he had secured in virtue not of his own personal merits , but of his connection with the Duke of Devonshire . The heir of the House of Cavendish could not - according to the ac ...
... career . But this preferment , it need hardly be said , he had secured in virtue not of his own personal merits , but of his connection with the Duke of Devonshire . The heir of the House of Cavendish could not - according to the ac ...
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... career of Sir Robert Peel I have nothing to do in these pages . It would be an impertinence to ask how far he has justified or disappointed the anticipations which were formed regarding his future at the time when he so suddenly came ...
... career of Sir Robert Peel I have nothing to do in these pages . It would be an impertinence to ask how far he has justified or disappointed the anticipations which were formed regarding his future at the time when he so suddenly came ...
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... career I shall not meddle . But whatever may be the truth about it , there can be no doubt as to the course of his political life . In the stormy arena of politics he has made his mark , and it is a very dis- tinctive one . He has not ...
... career I shall not meddle . But whatever may be the truth about it , there can be no doubt as to the course of his political life . In the stormy arena of politics he has made his mark , and it is a very dis- tinctive one . He has not ...
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Thomas Wemyss Reid. with scorn , if not with positive loathing , the political career of his heir . It has been a career which , alike in its merits and its defects , has been marked by almost all the characteristics which were most ...
Thomas Wemyss Reid. with scorn , if not with positive loathing , the political career of his heir . It has been a career which , alike in its merits and its defects , has been marked by almost all the characteristics which were most ...
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