A Critical Enquiry Regarding the Real Author of the Letters of Junius: Proving Them to Have Been Written by Lord Viscount SackvilleW. Phillips, 1825 - 382 páginas |
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... expect long let- ters from him , being very busily engaged in pre- paring his last volume of Painters . From July 1 to July 7 , 1770 , he was on a visit in Bucking- hamshire . Nov. 20 , 1770 , he writes , PREFATORY REMARKS . vii.
... expect long let- ters from him , being very busily engaged in pre- paring his last volume of Painters . From July 1 to July 7 , 1770 , he was on a visit in Bucking- hamshire . Nov. 20 , 1770 , he writes , PREFATORY REMARKS . vii.
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... expect from his coun- cils ? What plan of his , since in his office , dare he expose to the public eye , and say it has suc- ceeded ? Why then should we give him a partial acquittal to the prejudice of a gallant officer [ General ...
... expect from his coun- cils ? What plan of his , since in his office , dare he expose to the public eye , and say it has suc- ceeded ? Why then should we give him a partial acquittal to the prejudice of a gallant officer [ General ...
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... expect his predictions to be fulfilled so soon as they have been . " Again - 15 Dec. 1768 - To the right honour- able George Grenville - concludes with this fine eulogium on his character : - " Your weight and authority in parliament ...
... expect his predictions to be fulfilled so soon as they have been . " Again - 15 Dec. 1768 - To the right honour- able George Grenville - concludes with this fine eulogium on his character : - " Your weight and authority in parliament ...
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... . He had too many and too powerful enemies to expect any remission . The King hated him , and hated those who favoured him , the Prince's faction . The Duke was as ill - inclined to him . Fox , from private 88 A CRITICAL ENQUIRY INTO.
... . He had too many and too powerful enemies to expect any remission . The King hated him , and hated those who favoured him , the Prince's faction . The Duke was as ill - inclined to him . Fox , from private 88 A CRITICAL ENQUIRY INTO.
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... expect . The court - martial pronounced him guilty of having disobeyed Prince Ferdinand's orders , whom , by his commission and instruc- tions , he was ordered to obey : and declared it their opinion that he was unfit to serve his Ma ...
... expect . The court - martial pronounced him guilty of having disobeyed Prince Ferdinand's orders , whom , by his commission and instruc- tions , he was ordered to obey : and declared it their opinion that he was unfit to serve his Ma ...
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