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Page vii
... remains for me to add that in dischar- ging my task I have endeavoured to remember that it was my business to give Lord John Russell's opinions and not my own . I have , as far as possible , left the facts to speak for themselves . I ...
... remains for me to add that in dischar- ging my task I have endeavoured to remember that it was my business to give Lord John Russell's opinions and not my own . I have , as far as possible , left the facts to speak for themselves . I ...
Page 12
... remain at the helm of state long enough to bestow a pension on your very humble and obedient servant , JOHN RUSSELL.2 The volume opens with a farce which the author entitles ' Perseverance , or All in All . ' It is , of course , too ...
... remain at the helm of state long enough to bestow a pension on your very humble and obedient servant , JOHN RUSSELL.2 The volume opens with a farce which the author entitles ' Perseverance , or All in All . ' It is , of course , too ...
Page 39
... remain in . The only question was whither to go . Lord Holland seems to have seriously considered the alternative of going by sea to Cadiz or by land to Lisbon ; and , to the alarm of his friends in England , he adopted the latter ...
... remain in . The only question was whither to go . Lord Holland seems to have seriously considered the alternative of going by sea to Cadiz or by land to Lisbon ; and , to the alarm of his friends in England , he adopted the latter ...
Page 68
... remains to show that it was a most magnificent little town . Although the French were here four years , the people have true Spanish feelings , and showed a joy at Lord Wellington's success , compared to which all London rejoicings are ...
... remains to show that it was a most magnificent little town . Although the French were here four years , the people have true Spanish feelings , and showed a joy at Lord Wellington's success , compared to which all London rejoicings are ...
Page 88
... remain patient under trials which were almost unparalleled . Riots occurred in the agricultural counties of Eastern England . The Luddites , as they were termed , broke the machinery in the manufacturing districts ; and the Radicals ...
... remain patient under trials which were almost unparalleled . Riots occurred in the agricultural counties of Eastern England . The Luddites , as they were termed , broke the machinery in the manufacturing districts ; and the Radicals ...
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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.