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الصفحة 19
Well may the historian call this conversation one of the most curious in English
history . The Duke had precedent in his favour , for early in the preceding reign ,
Craggs had led the House of Commons ( if it could be called leading ) as the
docile ...
Well may the historian call this conversation one of the most curious in English
history . The Duke had precedent in his favour , for early in the preceding reign ,
Craggs had led the House of Commons ( if it could be called leading ) as the
docile ...
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1 • England and the English . By the late Lord Lytton . The noble author , who
delivered more than one fine and effective speech in the House of Commons ,
never addressed the Lords , although he carefully prepared five or six speeches ,
left ...
1 • England and the English . By the late Lord Lytton . The noble author , who
delivered more than one fine and effective speech in the House of Commons ,
never addressed the Lords , although he carefully prepared five or six speeches ,
left ...
الصفحة 35
Accordingly he stood up and delivered himself to this effect : My lords , I
understand but little of Latin , but a good deal of English , and not a little of the
English history , from which I have learnt the mischiefs of such prosecutions as
these , and ...
Accordingly he stood up and delivered himself to this effect : My lords , I
understand but little of Latin , but a good deal of English , and not a little of the
English history , from which I have learnt the mischiefs of such prosecutions as
these , and ...
الصفحة 41
To be at home in English history and the Latin classics — to be familiarly versed
in the commonplaces of civil and religious liberty , prerogative , toleration ,
standing armies , the Protestant succession , and the balance of powerto have a
...
To be at home in English history and the Latin classics — to be familiarly versed
in the commonplaces of civil and religious liberty , prerogative , toleration ,
standing armies , the Protestant succession , and the balance of powerto have a
...
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... that rise to dignity , of concentrated scorn that explodes to the dismay and
confusion of the scorner , as in the speech in which , as descriptive of his own
mental sufferings , he introduced the fine lines of Dryden :1 ' England and the
English .
... that rise to dignity , of concentrated scorn that explodes to the dismay and
confusion of the scorner , as in the speech in which , as descriptive of his own
mental sufferings , he introduced the fine lines of Dryden :1 ' England and the
English .
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