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... language which he could not have been so rash as to utter.1 If there was any weakness in Lord Melbourne at this stage of his life , it was in the following of the brilliant orator who had lured him for a year out of the Whig connection ...
... language which he could not have been so rash as to utter.1 If there was any weakness in Lord Melbourne at this stage of his life , it was in the following of the brilliant orator who had lured him for a year out of the Whig connection ...
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... language of European countries , could at any time constitute fitness for the control of the diplomatic service . Such things are but accessories ; the essential qualification is high spirit with tenacity of purpose . This Lord ...
... language of European countries , could at any time constitute fitness for the control of the diplomatic service . Such things are but accessories ; the essential qualification is high spirit with tenacity of purpose . This Lord ...
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... language which kept Lord Grey at full stretch . The King was so well advised as not to imitate his father in straining his rights , or his brother George in setting pleasure above business ; he caught for a moment their trick of petting ...
... language which kept Lord Grey at full stretch . The King was so well advised as not to imitate his father in straining his rights , or his brother George in setting pleasure above business ; he caught for a moment their trick of petting ...
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... language the variable grants are reckoned as ' Supply Services , ' and there is no neat expression for the settled allowances . The obsolete phrase used in the text is used in modern books of high authority . It is possible that a ...
... language the variable grants are reckoned as ' Supply Services , ' and there is no neat expression for the settled allowances . The obsolete phrase used in the text is used in modern books of high authority . It is possible that a ...
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... . Stanley did , with fierce and unerring counterstrokes . But they both uttered sentences which partly resembled aphorisms , partly epigrams , which arrested the fancy by unex- 136 BURKE ON PARLIAMENTARY REFORM . pected charms of language.
... . Stanley did , with fierce and unerring counterstrokes . But they both uttered sentences which partly resembled aphorisms , partly epigrams , which arrested the fancy by unex- 136 BURKE ON PARLIAMENTARY REFORM . pected charms of language.
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