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... effect for awhile . Though after- wards many of the Lords seemed to speak with more bold- ness , because they said one heard it to whom they had no other access but in that place , and they took the more liberty because what they said ...
... effect for awhile . Though after- wards many of the Lords seemed to speak with more bold- ness , because they said one heard it to whom they had no other access but in that place , and they took the more liberty because what they said ...
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... effect on the foreign relations of the country . The name of Pitt had been a charmed name . Our envoys tried in vain to conjure with the name of Chatham . ' 6 A few months after his elevation , the first Lord Holland wrote to Selwyn ...
... effect on the foreign relations of the country . The name of Pitt had been a charmed name . Our envoys tried in vain to conjure with the name of Chatham . ' 6 A few months after his elevation , the first Lord Holland wrote to Selwyn ...
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... effects were produced by terse weighty sentences , apt homely metaphors , sudden turns , quaint allusions , condensed reasoning , and bold apostrophes . They cannot be ac- quitted of pedantry , and they were occasionally long- winded ...
... effects were produced by terse weighty sentences , apt homely metaphors , sudden turns , quaint allusions , condensed reasoning , and bold apostrophes . They cannot be ac- quitted of pedantry , and they were occasionally long- winded ...
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... effects of some of them , we should infer that what the brilliant historian says of his favourite is equally true of the peculiar object of his vituperation : that it was in small circles , and , above all , in the House of Lords , that ...
... effects of some of them , we should infer that what the brilliant historian says of his favourite is equally true of the peculiar object of his vituperation : that it was in small circles , and , above all , in the House of Lords , that ...
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... 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 the ill fate of the prosecutors ...
... 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 the ill fate of the prosecutors ...
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