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THE POLITICAL TRIMMER . A Character . COLD , formal , dull , pragmatical , Anxious to pay his court to all , Too hollow to please any ; In friendship seeking his own ends , And therefore striving to make friends For ever with the many ' ...
THE POLITICAL TRIMMER . A Character . COLD , formal , dull , pragmatical , Anxious to pay his court to all , Too hollow to please any ; In friendship seeking his own ends , And therefore striving to make friends For ever with the many ' ...
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Mr. Huskisson has been consigned by the Duke to his political cemetery , " with all his glory about him ; " while his friends , —at least those in the House of Commons , -have cowered to the power , or the threats , we suspect , of his ...
Mr. Huskisson has been consigned by the Duke to his political cemetery , " with all his glory about him ; " while his friends , —at least those in the House of Commons , -have cowered to the power , or the threats , we suspect , of his ...
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I. THE priests of Ireland have often shaped the political destinies of their country , and at present they hold much of its fate in their hands . At the very first contest between Anglo - Norman lances and Milesian sparthes and battle ...
I. THE priests of Ireland have often shaped the political destinies of their country , and at present they hold much of its fate in their hands . At the very first contest between Anglo - Norman lances and Milesian sparthes and battle ...
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Flowers | 16 |
Letters to the Students of Glasgow by T Campbell Letter VI 1 VII | 97 |
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