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... ministers of the same monarch. The Spanish minister received his instructions, not from Madrid, but from Versailles. This was not hid from our ministers at home; and the discovery ought to have alarmed them, if the good of their country ...
... ministers of the same monarch. The Spanish minister received his instructions, not from Madrid, but from Versailles. This was not hid from our ministers at home; and the discovery ought to have alarmed them, if the good of their country ...
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... ministers what they may, the author knows that they could not avoid applying this 450,000_l. to the service of the establishment, as faithfully as he, or any other minister, could do. I say they could not avoid it, and have no merit at ...
... ministers what they may, the author knows that they could not avoid applying this 450,000_l. to the service of the establishment, as faithfully as he, or any other minister, could do. I say they could not avoid it, and have no merit at ...
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... ministers. The ministers, who have usually a short method on such occasions, attributed their unpopularity wholly to the efforts of faction. However this might be, the licentiousness and tumults of the common people, and the contempt of ...
... ministers. The ministers, who have usually a short method on such occasions, attributed their unpopularity wholly to the efforts of faction. However this might be, the licentiousness and tumults of the common people, and the contempt of ...
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... ministers, that it arose. It was the sense of Parliament on the evidence before them. No one so much as suspects that ministerial allurements or terrors had any share in it. Our author is very much displeased, that so much credit was ...
... ministers, that it arose. It was the sense of Parliament on the evidence before them. No one so much as suspects that ministerial allurements or terrors had any share in it. Our author is very much displeased, that so much credit was ...
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... ministers disadvantageous to the nation, and by the merchants unsafe and unprofitable.”[98] Both the assertions in this paragraph are equally groundless. The treaty then concluded by Sir George Macartney was not on the terms which the ...
... ministers disadvantageous to the nation, and by the merchants unsafe and unprofitable.”[98] Both the assertions in this paragraph are equally groundless. The treaty then concluded by Sir George Macartney was not on the terms which the ...
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