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Page vii
... admit with gratitude that Sydney Smith has done his friend's memory a good service by pointing out that the poco curante manner , the apparently light tone in which he often treated serious subjects , concealed a strenuous application ...
... admit with gratitude that Sydney Smith has done his friend's memory a good service by pointing out that the poco curante manner , the apparently light tone in which he often treated serious subjects , concealed a strenuous application ...
Page xiv
... admit that he might have answered him more constantly than he did . I admit also , and it would be absurd to deny , that Lord Brougham was much the better speaker of the two , but it is against all evidence to say that Lord Melbourne ...
... admit that he might have answered him more constantly than he did . I admit also , and it would be absurd to deny , that Lord Brougham was much the better speaker of the two , but it is against all evidence to say that Lord Melbourne ...
Page 24
... admit any of those indefinite expres- sions of Ministers , you give up the whole of the ques- tion . The facility with which Pitt has raised the loan is very unfavourable ; even though he may not have got it upon such good terms as he ...
... admit any of those indefinite expres- sions of Ministers , you give up the whole of the ques- tion . The facility with which Pitt has raised the loan is very unfavourable ; even though he may not have got it upon such good terms as he ...
Page 34
... admit that up to the period of the despatches from Ireland containing the proceedings with the Catho- lic deputies at Dublin the King was not aware of the extent to which the Catholic disabilities were intended to be removed - which in ...
... admit that up to the period of the despatches from Ireland containing the proceedings with the Catho- lic deputies at Dublin the King was not aware of the extent to which the Catholic disabilities were intended to be removed - which in ...
Page 46
... admit them to be just and true . They are like unskilful writers of novels who draw characters entirely virtuous or entirely vicious . The consequence is there is no delusion , because there is no semblance of reality , and the reader ...
... admit them to be just and true . They are like unskilful writers of novels who draw characters entirely virtuous or entirely vicious . The consequence is there is no delusion , because there is no semblance of reality , and the reader ...
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