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Pagina 14
... duties . At the outset youth and ill - health had excluded him from the society of the place , and even if games had then been fashionable he would not have joined in them . He wished no more than his father wished him to play the part ...
... duties . At the outset youth and ill - health had excluded him from the society of the place , and even if games had then been fashionable he would not have joined in them . He wished no more than his father wished him to play the part ...
Pagina 22
... duties and pleasures of London . He could at last find pleasure in the practical jokes which were denied to his childhood . " One morning , " says Wilberforce , " we found the fruits of Pitt's early rising in the careful sowing of the ...
... duties and pleasures of London . He could at last find pleasure in the practical jokes which were denied to his childhood . " One morning , " says Wilberforce , " we found the fruits of Pitt's early rising in the careful sowing of the ...
Pagina 38
... the blue ribbon there succeeded Lord Rockingham , and Pitt , true to his profession , refused the Treas- urership of Ireland , though it carried with it light duties and five thousand a - year . Holding no office , he was 38 WILLIAM PITT.
... the blue ribbon there succeeded Lord Rockingham , and Pitt , true to his profession , refused the Treas- urership of Ireland , though it carried with it light duties and five thousand a - year . Holding no office , he was 38 WILLIAM PITT.
Pagina 44
... duties of his high office , would in a great measure make away with what he felt himself to be an objection . " No apology was necessary . In a few months the House and the country had forgotten that Pitt carried on his shoulders so ...
... duties of his high office , would in a great measure make away with what he felt himself to be an objection . " No apology was necessary . In a few months the House and the country had forgotten that Pitt carried on his shoulders so ...
Pagina 45
... duties to Pitt , who met and routed single - handed the combined forces of the multifarious Opposition led by Fox , Burke , and Sheridan . Their attack , it need hardly be said , was factious and unscrupulous . They jested , they raved ...
... duties to Pitt , who met and routed single - handed the combined forces of the multifarious Opposition led by Fox , Burke , and Sheridan . Their attack , it need hardly be said , was factious and unscrupulous . They jested , they raved ...
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