History of the Regency and Reign of King George the Fourth, Parts 2-3; Part 8William Cobbett, 1830 - Great Britain |
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... debts and taxes to the want of that reform , and the aristocracy ascribing their com- plaints to seditious and treasonable designs , and passing laws to silence them , or punish them ac- cordingly . When this war began ( 1793 ) thé ...
... debts and taxes to the want of that reform , and the aristocracy ascribing their com- plaints to seditious and treasonable designs , and passing laws to silence them , or punish them ac- cordingly . When this war began ( 1793 ) thé ...
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... debts , which , until this marriage was proposed , the nation was by no means disposed to pay . The country was at this time involved in a most expensive and wasteful war against the people of France : a war undertaken to put down ...
... debts , which , until this marriage was proposed , the nation was by no means disposed to pay . The country was at this time involved in a most expensive and wasteful war against the people of France : a war undertaken to put down ...
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... debts of a prince who had always received a large annual stipend out of the taxes , was what even PrTT , daring as he was , had not the confidence to pro- pose without being furnished with some plausible pretence for the proposition ...
... debts of a prince who had always received a large annual stipend out of the taxes , was what even PrTT , daring as he was , had not the confidence to pro- pose without being furnished with some plausible pretence for the proposition ...
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... a view of paying the debts of the Prince . Amongst these was Mr. GREY , now Earl GREY , who actually made a motion to take 20,000l . a year from the sum pro- posed by the minister . This motion was lost ; I. ] GEORGE IV .
... a view of paying the debts of the Prince . Amongst these was Mr. GREY , now Earl GREY , who actually made a motion to take 20,000l . a year from the sum pro- posed by the minister . This motion was lost ; I. ] GEORGE IV .
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... debts was called for . Never- theless the new debt , which had arisen , the rea- der will perceive , in the space of little more than seven years , amounted to the enormous sum of 639,8907 . sterling ; that is to say , to 80,000 , for ...
... debts was called for . Never- theless the new debt , which had arisen , the rea- der will perceive , in the space of little more than seven years , amounted to the enormous sum of 639,8907 . sterling ; that is to say , to 80,000 , for ...
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