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... latter . The advent of Democracy must , therefore , be regarded as one of the primary interests of the period under review . Hardly less significant is the shifting of the centre of social and ernment Social economic gravity . The Act ...
... latter . The advent of Democracy must , therefore , be regarded as one of the primary interests of the period under review . Hardly less significant is the shifting of the centre of social and ernment Social economic gravity . The Act ...
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... latter portion of the period under review . The nineteenth century will , however , stand out not merely as the age of Industry but as the age of Science . With the purely intellectual achievements of Science this work cannot concern ...
... latter portion of the period under review . The nineteenth century will , however , stand out not merely as the age of Industry but as the age of Science . With the purely intellectual achievements of Science this work cannot concern ...
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... latter.1 Opinions differ as to the policy of Pitt and his suc- cessors at the Treasury in raising the loans required in stock of a low denomination , but on the whole the system is generally con- demned . Between 1793 and 1801 the ...
... latter.1 Opinions differ as to the policy of Pitt and his suc- cessors at the Treasury in raising the loans required in stock of a low denomination , but on the whole the system is generally con- demned . Between 1793 and 1801 the ...
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... latter had re- cently been persuaded to accept the Governor - Generalship of India , and was just on the point of leaving England to assume his new duties . He decided , however , to accept Lord Liverpool's offer , and for the next five ...
... latter had re- cently been persuaded to accept the Governor - Generalship of India , and was just on the point of leaving England to assume his new duties . He decided , however , to accept Lord Liverpool's offer , and for the next five ...
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... latter inefficient to transact delicate points with him ; Hardenberg , from his infir- mities and declining weakness , is incapable of taking a prominent line ; Bernstorff is kept in the background by Hardenberg , and the Minister of ...
... latter inefficient to transact delicate points with him ; Hardenberg , from his infir- mities and declining weakness , is incapable of taking a prominent line ; Bernstorff is kept in the background by Hardenberg , and the Minister of ...
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Page 203 - Secondly, having once given her sanction to a measure, that it be not arbitrarily altered or modified by the Minister. Such an act she must consider as failing in sincerity towards the Crown, and justly to be visited by the exercise of her constitutional right of dismissing that Minister.
Page 316 - My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it.
Page 515 - Stanhope, and himself became First Lord of the Treasury and Leader of the House of Commons.
Page 314 - How modest, kindly, all-accomplish'd, wise, With what sublime repression of himself, And in what limits, and how tenderly ; Not swaying to this faction or to that ; Not making his high place the lawless perch Of wing'd ambitions, nor a vantageground For pleasure ; but thro...
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Page 425 - that it is an essential principle of the law of nations that no power can liberate itself from the engagements of a treaty, nor modify the stipulations thereof, unless with the consent of the contracting powers, by means of an amicable arrangement.
Page 81 - I am one of those who have probably passed a longer period of my life engaged in war than most men, and principally, I may say, in civil war ; and I must say this, — that if I could avoid, by any sacrifice whatever, even one month of civil war in the country to which I am attached, I would sacrifice my life in order to do it.