The public life of the ... earl of BeaconsfieldLow, Marston, Searle et Rivington, 1881 |
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... reason for altering a word of it . I then recognised Lord Beaconsfield as the one man of political genius whom this century had produced . Nothing that has occurred since that time has changed my opinion . But whatever I may have said ...
... reason for altering a word of it . I then recognised Lord Beaconsfield as the one man of political genius whom this century had produced . Nothing that has occurred since that time has changed my opinion . But whatever I may have said ...
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... reason to believe that the principal object I had in view when writing it , has been to a great extent attained . A more just and generous view of the character and work of its subject now prevails alike in England and on the Continent ...
... reason to believe that the principal object I had in view when writing it , has been to a great extent attained . A more just and generous view of the character and work of its subject now prevails alike in England and on the Continent ...
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... reason to believe that the principal object I had in view when writing it , has been to a great extent attained . A more just and generous view of the character and work of its subject now prevails alike in England and on the Continent ...
... reason to believe that the principal object I had in view when writing it , has been to a great extent attained . A more just and generous view of the character and work of its subject now prevails alike in England and on the Continent ...
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... reason for Lord Beaconsfield's long exile from office , and that had he been more subservient he might from one point of view have been more successful . He had , they remembered , proudly refused to be a " Minister on sufferance ...
... reason for Lord Beaconsfield's long exile from office , and that had he been more subservient he might from one point of view have been more successful . He had , they remembered , proudly refused to be a " Minister on sufferance ...
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... reason that he considered that the first duty of an English statesman was to the English people . In personal qualities no less than in political opinions Lord Beaconsfield offers the strongest possible contrast to his great opponent ...
... reason that he considered that the first duty of an English statesman was to the English people . In personal qualities no less than in political opinions Lord Beaconsfield offers the strongest possible contrast to his great opponent ...
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