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... affairs with attention during the last twenty years can fail to have been struck with this fact . Mr. Gladstone , for example , habitually speaks of his opponents as though they were not merely mistaken but wilfully wrong and open to ...
... affairs with attention during the last twenty years can fail to have been struck with this fact . Mr. Gladstone , for example , habitually speaks of his opponents as though they were not merely mistaken but wilfully wrong and open to ...
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... affairs in Venice , and the attractions held out by the English Government , in- duced many Jews to settle in this country . Amongst them was the grand- father of Lord Beaconsfield - Benjamin Disraeli the first . With his settle- ment ...
... affairs in Venice , and the attractions held out by the English Government , in- duced many Jews to settle in this country . Amongst them was the grand- father of Lord Beaconsfield - Benjamin Disraeli the first . With his settle- ment ...
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... affairs can hardly last six months , " it becomes all men who are sincere well wishers to their country , and who are really independent , that is to say , who are not pledged to the unhappy party in power , to combine together for the ...
... affairs can hardly last six months , " it becomes all men who are sincere well wishers to their country , and who are really independent , that is to say , who are not pledged to the unhappy party in power , to combine together for the ...
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... affairs , which , after a somewhat protracted debate , was rejected by 243 votes to 164. France , following the ... affair seems to have been managed about as ill as the enemies of English ascendency could have THE TRIAL OF O'CONNELL ...
... affairs , which , after a somewhat protracted debate , was rejected by 243 votes to 164. France , following the ... affair seems to have been managed about as ill as the enemies of English ascendency could have THE TRIAL OF O'CONNELL ...
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... affairs , and especially to the frightful ravages of the potato disease , a carefully veiled allusion to the Corn Laws . After speaking of the advisability of continuing in the path of Free Trade , the Queen was made to say , " I ...
... affairs , and especially to the frightful ravages of the potato disease , a carefully veiled allusion to the Corn Laws . After speaking of the advisability of continuing in the path of Free Trade , the Queen was made to say , " I ...
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