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... feel it to be the greatest sin I have to answer for . More than thirty years later still , Lord John himself said in the memorandum which he dictated to Lady Russell- Talleyrand said , with his usual point , ' La meilleure éducation du ...
... feel it to be the greatest sin I have to answer for . More than thirty years later still , Lord John himself said in the memorandum which he dictated to Lady Russell- Talleyrand said , with his usual point , ' La meilleure éducation du ...
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... feeling as to sight , or art thou but A place in my mind's eye of false creation , Proceeding from my anxious hopes and wishes ? I see thee yet in gold more palpable Than this which now I hold , & c . Lord Hawkesbury , however , refused ...
... feeling as to sight , or art thou but A place in my mind's eye of false creation , Proceeding from my anxious hopes and wishes ? I see thee yet in gold more palpable Than this which now I hold , & c . Lord Hawkesbury , however , refused ...
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... feeling . For the fall of the Ministry was due to a despatch of the Duke of Bedford which embodied the hereditary policy of the Russells the admission of Roman Catholics into the army , and the employment of Roman Catholic gentlemen as ...
... feeling . For the fall of the Ministry was due to a despatch of the Duke of Bedford which embodied the hereditary policy of the Russells the admission of Roman Catholics into the army , and the employment of Roman Catholic gentlemen as ...
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... feeling which is perhaps even still a dominant though latent in- fluence in English politics . How great an interest Lord John was taking in these matters will be seen from the following extract from his jour- nal : — In most of the ...
... feeling which is perhaps even still a dominant though latent in- fluence in English politics . How great an interest Lord John was taking in these matters will be seen from the following extract from his jour- nal : — In most of the ...
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... Feeling ' had won him in his youth . Such were some of the men whose memory even now gives an interest to the Edinburgh which Lord John knew . And , if Edinburgh itself were the centre of an intellectual society which no other town of ...
... Feeling ' had won him in his youth . Such were some of the men whose memory even now gives an interest to the Edinburgh which Lord John knew . And , if Edinburgh itself were the centre of an intellectual society which no other town of ...
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Page viii - After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions, To keep mine honour from corruption, But such an honest chronicler as Griffith.