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... . " Better perish , " she once exclaimed , " than owe our lives to Lafayette and the constitutional party ! " The last words of Barnave , on the scaffold , " stamping with his foot , and looking upward , " were , ANTOINE BARNAVE . 335.
... . " Better perish , " she once exclaimed , " than owe our lives to Lafayette and the constitutional party ! " The last words of Barnave , on the scaffold , " stamping with his foot , and looking upward , " were , ANTOINE BARNAVE . 335.
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... parties during the parliamentary struggle which ended in the overthrow of the monarchical com- bination by the elections of 1877 . CHEVALIER BAYARD . [ Pierre de Terrail , the Chevalier sans peur et sans reproche , born 1475 ...
... parties during the parliamentary struggle which ended in the overthrow of the monarchical com- bination by the elections of 1877 . CHEVALIER BAYARD . [ Pierre de Terrail , the Chevalier sans peur et sans reproche , born 1475 ...
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... party and plunders the other . " He said of Peel , in the same year , " Such a man is no more a great statesman than the man who gets up behind a carriage is a great whip . " Also , in a speech 40 EARL OF BEACONSFIELD .
... party and plunders the other . " He said of Peel , in the same year , " Such a man is no more a great statesman than the man who gets up behind a carriage is a great whip . " Also , in a speech 40 EARL OF BEACONSFIELD .
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... party to the abolition of the Corn Laws , to the Saxons under Charlemagne , " who , according to the chronicle , were converted in battalions , and baptized in platoons . " An organized hypocrisy . ― In a debate in the House of Commons ...
... party to the abolition of the Corn Laws , to the Saxons under Charlemagne , " who , according to the chronicle , were converted in battalions , and baptized in platoons . " An organized hypocrisy . ― In a debate in the House of Commons ...
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... party men . You may cross the House , yet you cannot convert 15,000 tons into 20,000 tons ( Speech on the Sugar Duties , July 28 , 1846 ) . In a speech on the Railway Bill , April 22 , 1846 , he noticed " the sort of anxiety which seems ...
... party men . You may cross the House , yet you cannot convert 15,000 tons into 20,000 tons ( Speech on the Sugar Duties , July 28 , 1846 ) . In a speech on the Railway Bill , April 22 , 1846 , he noticed " the sort of anxiety which seems ...
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