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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... seemed to have some sense of honesty and honour - a sense , which in several of their ancestors , appears to have been altogether absent . The people of England in preferring these sisters to their father , acted upon the very old maxim ...
... seemed to have some sense of honesty and honour - a sense , which in several of their ancestors , appears to have been altogether absent . The people of England in preferring these sisters to their father , acted upon the very old maxim ...
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... seemed to await him . Much to his credit , however , Lord Churchill was found determined to remain in the religion in which he had been educated , and the eyes of the King began to look on his favourite with distrust . Then it was that ...
... seemed to await him . Much to his credit , however , Lord Churchill was found determined to remain in the religion in which he had been educated , and the eyes of the King began to look on his favourite with distrust . Then it was that ...
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... seemed to make no impression whatever on the Queen . It is not intended here to attempt to guide the reader through the mazes of Whig and Tory politics during the reign of Queen Anne ; but there was one incident which must be noticed ...
... seemed to make no impression whatever on the Queen . It is not intended here to attempt to guide the reader through the mazes of Whig and Tory politics during the reign of Queen Anne ; but there was one incident which must be noticed ...
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... seemed balancing her prejudices against the expressed will of the nation , fully con- fident that he had thus secured for himself the highest honours of the State . It so happened that at the moment the intriguers thought themselves ...
... seemed balancing her prejudices against the expressed will of the nation , fully con- fident that he had thus secured for himself the highest honours of the State . It so happened that at the moment the intriguers thought themselves ...
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... seemed determined always to keep up in the mind of his people the remembrance that he was a foreigner . No statesman ever occupied the proud position of First Minister without having to endure a certain portion of abuse . As long as ...
... seemed determined always to keep up in the mind of his people the remembrance that he was a foreigner . No statesman ever occupied the proud position of First Minister without having to endure a certain portion of abuse . As long as ...
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