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A

HISTORY OF ENGLAND

IN THE

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

BY

WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE LECKY

VOLUME III.

LONDON

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.

1882

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Difficulty of combining in fixed governments security and ability

Evils of elective monarchy

English type of monarchy

Requires the withdrawal of the King from active politics

George III. the last English King who greatly influenced politics.
His early life.

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Bolingbroke, Carteret, and Pitt

Divisions in the Government. The King's speech.

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Bute and the Jacobites

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Pitt accepts a pension for himself and a title for his wife

Conquest of Martinique and Havannah

Resignation of Newcastle. Bute Prime Minister

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