The History of Party: From the Rise of the Whig and Tory Factions, in the Reign of Charles II, to the Passing of the Reform Bill, Volumen3John Macrone, St. James's Square, 1837 |
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... Passing of the Reform Bill George Wingrove Cooke. THE HISTORY OF PARTY ; FROM THE RISE OF THE WHIG AND TORY FACTIONS , IN THE REIGN OF CHARLES II . , ΤΟ THE PASSING OF THE REFORM BILL . BY GEORGE WINGROVE COOKE , Esq . , BARRISTER AT LAW ...
... Passing of the Reform Bill George Wingrove Cooke. THE HISTORY OF PARTY ; FROM THE RISE OF THE WHIG AND TORY FACTIONS , IN THE REIGN OF CHARLES II . , ΤΟ THE PASSING OF THE REFORM BILL . BY GEORGE WINGROVE COOKE , Esq . , BARRISTER AT LAW ...
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... passed - Resentment and opposition of the Tories - Gene- rosity of the Whigs , who support the Duke of Wellington against his- own party CHAPTER XXII . Prospects of the Whigs at the accession of William IV . - French revolu- tion of ...
... passed - Resentment and opposition of the Tories - Gene- rosity of the Whigs , who support the Duke of Wellington against his- own party CHAPTER XXII . Prospects of the Whigs at the accession of William IV . - French revolu- tion of ...
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... Passing of the Reform Bill George Wingrove Cooke. of the present generation , and the events which contemporaries judge so all - important , have been passed over as lightly as those of other times . I much regret that the nature of the ...
... Passing of the Reform Bill George Wingrove Cooke. of the present generation , and the events which contemporaries judge so all - important , have been passed over as lightly as those of other times . I much regret that the nature of the ...
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... Passing of the Reform Bill George Wingrove Cooke. I. the West Indies , and Africa were its price - a price CHAP . This was the only conquest fifty times its worth . France had to restore . Pitt now passed on to a defence of his own ...
... Passing of the Reform Bill George Wingrove Cooke. I. the West Indies , and Africa were its price - a price CHAP . This was the only conquest fifty times its worth . France had to restore . Pitt now passed on to a defence of his own ...
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... Passing of the Reform Bill George Wingrove Cooke. CHAP . II . A.D. 1763 . The king also expressed a wish to see a ... passed , fully persuaded from the king's manner and behaviour that he was in earnest , and all The two points of ...
... Passing of the Reform Bill George Wingrove Cooke. CHAP . II . A.D. 1763 . The king also expressed a wish to see a ... passed , fully persuaded from the king's manner and behaviour that he was in earnest , and all The two points of ...
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Página 54 - For even then, Sir, even before this splendid orb was entirely set, and while the western horizon was in a blaze with his descending glory, on the opposite quarter of the heavens arose another luminary, and for his hour became lord of the ascendant.
Página 86 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled, he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white; patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans; whigs and tories; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand...
Página 218 - The principal men both days were Fox and Wedderburne, on the opposite sides ; the latter displayed his usual talents ; the former taking the vast compass of the question before us, discovered powers for regular debate, which neither his friends hoped, nor his enemies dreaded.
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Página 55 - If he had not so great a stock, as some have had who flourished formerly, of knowledge long treasured up, he knew better by far than any man I ever was acquainted with, how to bring together within a short time all that was necessary to establish, to illustrate, and to decorate that side of the question he supported. He stated his matter skilfully and powerfully. He particularly excelled in a most luminous explanation and display of his subject. His style of argument was neither trite and vulgar,...
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Página 86 - ... dove-tailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid; such a piece of diversified mosaic ; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white ; patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans; whigs and tories; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious show ; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on.