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... Bute ; and the only good Managers of revenue we have seen are Lord Despenser and Mr. George Grenville ; and , under the description of men of virtue and ability , he holds them out to us as the only persons fit to put our affairs in ...
... Bute ; and the only good Managers of revenue we have seen are Lord Despenser and Mr. George Grenville ; and , under the description of men of virtue and ability , he holds them out to us as the only persons fit to put our affairs in ...
Page 252
... Lord Bute and Lord Despenser . But to the latter , this is , I suppose , but a civil- ity to old acquaintance ; to the former , a little stroke of politics . We may therefore fairly say , that our only hope is his life ; and he has , to ...
... Lord Bute and Lord Despenser . But to the latter , this is , I suppose , but a civil- ity to old acquaintance ; to the former , a little stroke of politics . We may therefore fairly say , that our only hope is his life ; and he has , to ...
Page 330
... Lord Bute , but from the circumstances which favoured it , and from an indifference to the constitution which had been for some time growing among our gentry . We should have been tried with it , if the Earl of Bute had never existed ...
... Lord Bute , but from the circumstances which favoured it , and from an indifference to the constitution which had been for some time growing among our gentry . We should have been tried with it , if the Earl of Bute had never existed ...
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... lord of the admiralty , though not strictly called upon in his official line , he presented a very strong memorial to the lords of the treasury , ( my Lord Bute was then at the head of the board , ) heavily complaining of the growth of ...
... lord of the admiralty , though not strictly called upon in his official line , he presented a very strong memorial to the lords of the treasury , ( my Lord Bute was then at the head of the board , ) heavily complaining of the growth of ...
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