Memoirs of Horace Walpole and His Contemporaries: Including Numerous Original Letters, Chiefly from Strawberry Hill, Volume 1Eliot Warburton H. Colburn, 1851 |
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... England , are a class apart . They can afford to be independent of genealogical pretensions , and indifferent to the honours of Norman descent ; for it can be no dis- tinction to the inheritors of the name of an eminent statesman , a a ...
... England , are a class apart . They can afford to be independent of genealogical pretensions , and indifferent to the honours of Norman descent ; for it can be no dis- tinction to the inheritors of the name of an eminent statesman , a a ...
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... England . Young Churchill and his wife accompanied them , and the Colonel was also employed in several confidential negotiations between the royal brothers , by which he greatly assisted in the return of the Duke of York to his proper ...
... England . Young Churchill and his wife accompanied them , and the Colonel was also employed in several confidential negotiations between the royal brothers , by which he greatly assisted in the return of the Duke of York to his proper ...
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... England . He was induced to open a negotiation with the Prince of Orange , who was watching with intense interest , the ill - advised measures adopted by his father in - law , to Catho- licise the people of England . The result is well ...
... England . He was induced to open a negotiation with the Prince of Orange , who was watching with intense interest , the ill - advised measures adopted by his father in - law , to Catho- licise the people of England . The result is well ...
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... England on the of November , 1707 , his own party was falling to pieces or deserting to the Tories . A stormy debate ensued in both houses : the ministry were attacked with much virulence : the conduct of the Duke's brother , Admiral ...
... England on the of November , 1707 , his own party was falling to pieces or deserting to the Tories . A stormy debate ensued in both houses : the ministry were attacked with much virulence : the conduct of the Duke's brother , Admiral ...
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... England in favour of the Pretender , took off much of the public attention from the quarrel of Whigs and Tories . The Duke of Marlborough , aided by the able Secretary - at - War , was indefatigable in directing the military resources ...
... England in favour of the Pretender , took off much of the public attention from the quarrel of Whigs and Tories . The Duke of Marlborough , aided by the able Secretary - at - War , was indefatigable in directing the military resources ...
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