The Quarterly Review, Volume 105William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1859 - English literature |
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... Lord Cornwallis landed , and afforded the strongest argument for the union ... Castlereagh , Fitzgibbon , and Thomas Moore amongst her living sons - when ... Lord Cornwallis .
... Lord Cornwallis landed , and afforded the strongest argument for the union ... Castlereagh , Fitzgibbon , and Thomas Moore amongst her living sons - when ... Lord Cornwallis .
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... Lord Castlereagh , Lord Brougham says : - ' It is another topic of high praise that he took a generous part against the faction which , setting themselves against all liberal and tolerant government , sought to drive from their post the ...
... Lord Castlereagh , Lord Brougham says : - ' It is another topic of high praise that he took a generous part against the faction which , setting themselves against all liberal and tolerant government , sought to drive from their post the ...
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... Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero. unanimous as to the mode of ... Castlereagh Corre- spondence ) , in which he speaks of his ' damnable ... Lords - Lieutenants were Lord Cornwallis . 27.
... Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero. unanimous as to the mode of ... Castlereagh Corre- spondence ) , in which he speaks of his ' damnable ... Lords - Lieutenants were Lord Cornwallis . 27.
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... Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero. that it was wrong ... Castlereagh had cer- tainly no direct hand in the bribery practised . ' Yet ... Lord Chesterfield , who , to use Lord Cornwallis . 29.
... Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero. that it was wrong ... Castlereagh had cer- tainly no direct hand in the bribery practised . ' Yet ... Lord Chesterfield , who , to use Lord Cornwallis . 29.
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... Lord Castlereagh invited twenty or thirty of his staunchest supporters , offighting families , ' to a dinner , at which a formal proposal was made by Sir John Blaquiere , and received with acclamation , that they should make the measure ...
... Lord Castlereagh invited twenty or thirty of his staunchest supporters , offighting families , ' to a dinner , at which a formal proposal was made by Sir John Blaquiere , and received with acclamation , that they should make the measure ...
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