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... kind attention in sending me your Selwyn volumes : but to be candid with you , I can by no means approve of the publication of letters of so pecu- liarly a private , and in many instances scandalous , character . I cannot , I honestly ...
... kind attention in sending me your Selwyn volumes : but to be candid with you , I can by no means approve of the publication of letters of so pecu- liarly a private , and in many instances scandalous , character . I cannot , I honestly ...
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... kind of very natural disinclination . The mis- fortune it seems to me was , that when Ellenborough's going out offered room for an arrangement , W. was not made P. S. [ Privy Seal ] instead of the Duke of B. [ Buckingham ] . I have a ...
... kind of very natural disinclination . The mis- fortune it seems to me was , that when Ellenborough's going out offered room for an arrangement , W. was not made P. S. [ Privy Seal ] instead of the Duke of B. [ Buckingham ] . I have a ...
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... kind and friendly tone of your letter . I may be wrong ; I have no overweening con- fidence in my own judgment ; but I do not anticipate from Corn Law repeal consequences half as fatal as must have resulted from a protracted but ...
... kind and friendly tone of your letter . I may be wrong ; I have no overweening con- fidence in my own judgment ; but I do not anticipate from Corn Law repeal consequences half as fatal as must have resulted from a protracted but ...
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... kind of speech he was about to make . The Duke is very angry at this contemptuous treatment , and so are others of the Cabinet , and I suspect all . All this is part of a system which he has been all along pur- suing , but which he ...
... kind of speech he was about to make . The Duke is very angry at this contemptuous treatment , and so are others of the Cabinet , and I suspect all . All this is part of a system which he has been all along pur- suing , but which he ...
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... kind and confidential with me , and that last Christmas he talked and wrote a good deal to me on the then recent events . I , during the crisis , urged him with great earnestness to follow your course , and not resume the Cabinet key ...
... kind and confidential with me , and that last Christmas he talked and wrote a good deal to me on the then recent events . I , during the crisis , urged him with great earnestness to follow your course , and not resume the Cabinet key ...
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