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... mind and docility of temper will , I know , render him conformable to your Discipline , in all points . Too young for the irregularities of a man , I trust he will not , on the other hand , prove troublesome by the Puerile sallies of a ...
... mind and docility of temper will , I know , render him conformable to your Discipline , in all points . Too young for the irregularities of a man , I trust he will not , on the other hand , prove troublesome by the Puerile sallies of a ...
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... mind a comparison with Charles James Fox . That Pitt never descended to the dissipation which allured Fox is true enough , and though it is not for us to play the censor , it may be admitted without pedantry that his health and his ...
... mind a comparison with Charles James Fox . That Pitt never descended to the dissipation which allured Fox is true enough , and though it is not for us to play the censor , it may be admitted without pedantry that his health and his ...
Pagina 25
... mind . The only country that ever he saw , save his own , was France ; and in that country , afterwards his bitterest antagonist , he passed but six brief weeks in the autumn of 1783. In company with Eliot and Wilberforce he visited ...
... mind . The only country that ever he saw , save his own , was France ; and in that country , afterwards his bitterest antagonist , he passed but six brief weeks in the autumn of 1783. In company with Eliot and Wilberforce he visited ...
Pagina 35
... mind , however , was made up . Day after day he assailed " the lord in the blue ribbon " with increasing ferocity , and there is no doubt that the fall of North's Ministry was brought about by his untiring eloquence . He knew neither ...
... mind , however , was made up . Day after day he assailed " the lord in the blue ribbon " with increasing ferocity , and there is no doubt that the fall of North's Ministry was brought about by his untiring eloquence . He knew neither ...
Pagina 56
... mind was made up in the other sense . Though he hesi- tated to decline the call of his friends , he could not rely upon the aid or for- bearance of Lord North . The aid , if given , would be precarious ; but above all , said he , " in ...
... mind was made up in the other sense . Though he hesi- tated to decline the call of his friends , he could not rely upon the aid or for- bearance of Lord North . The aid , if given , would be precarious ; but above all , said he , " in ...
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