The Living Age, Volume 270Living Age Company, 1911 |
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... cause of peace and of Anglo - American reunion King George is not afraid to make precedents . From foreign affairs we pass to the Here again politics of the Empire . we are confronted , not by words , but by deeds . The King has made a ...
... cause of peace and of Anglo - American reunion King George is not afraid to make precedents . From foreign affairs we pass to the Here again politics of the Empire . we are confronted , not by words , but by deeds . The King has made a ...
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... cause Congreve was a fine gentleman , inclined to be cynical , Thackeray as- sumed that his life was coarser than Steele's . Yet he never detected Con- greve's innate deference to the sex , and has lavished praise on the finest com ...
... cause Congreve was a fine gentleman , inclined to be cynical , Thackeray as- sumed that his life was coarser than Steele's . Yet he never detected Con- greve's innate deference to the sex , and has lavished praise on the finest com ...
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... cause or one sovereign was as good as another to them , so that they could hold the best places under them , and like Lockit and Peachem , the New- gate chiefs in the Rogues ' Opera , Mr. Gay wrote afterwards , had each in his hand ...
... cause or one sovereign was as good as another to them , so that they could hold the best places under them , and like Lockit and Peachem , the New- gate chiefs in the Rogues ' Opera , Mr. Gay wrote afterwards , had each in his hand ...
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... cause . He is blind to the Queen's cunning and meanness , nor is his account of George the Fourth more than a flimsy outlook on a flimsy He ignores his natural quick- man . He The ness and ability , his thwarted ambi- tions , and warped ...
... cause . He is blind to the Queen's cunning and meanness , nor is his account of George the Fourth more than a flimsy outlook on a flimsy He ignores his natural quick- man . He The ness and ability , his thwarted ambi- tions , and warped ...
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... cause of severance was not the Boston riot over a tea - duty which was ninepence less than in Eng- land , but the resentment of a grown - up nation at absurd tutelage . The ini- tial pretexts were otherwise . As he puts it , regarding ...
... cause of severance was not the Boston riot over a tea - duty which was ninepence less than in Eng- land , but the resentment of a grown - up nation at absurd tutelage . The ini- tial pretexts were otherwise . As he puts it , regarding ...
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