Speeches in Parliament: Of the Right Honourable William Windham, Том 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812 |
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... kind , rendered it necessary for him to be landed on the coast of Norway . Here , accompanied by a faithful servant now living , who had attended him from his childhood , he passed through a series of adventures and hair - breadth ...
... kind , rendered it necessary for him to be landed on the coast of Norway . Here , accompanied by a faithful servant now living , who had attended him from his childhood , he passed through a series of adventures and hair - breadth ...
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... kind , from the effects of which it is certain that his constitution never thoroughly recovered . For many days he kept his bed at Bury St. Edmund's , without any hopes being entertained of his recovery . At length , he was thought to ...
... kind , from the effects of which it is certain that his constitution never thoroughly recovered . For many days he kept his bed at Bury St. Edmund's , without any hopes being entertained of his recovery . At length , he was thought to ...
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... kind of neutral war . The only danger is , that they may be driven at last to join themselves openly to those to whom they are now giving every kind of clandestine assistance . Though they will find their own destruction in this , they ...
... kind of neutral war . The only danger is , that they may be driven at last to join themselves openly to those to whom they are now giving every kind of clandestine assistance . Though they will find their own destruction in this , they ...
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... kind attention to inferiors . A trifling anecdote , which the author has heard Mr. Windham relate with some glee , may perhaps in this place be deemed admis- sible . While on this expedition , he happened to fall into conver- sation ...
... kind attention to inferiors . A trifling anecdote , which the author has heard Mr. Windham relate with some glee , may perhaps in this place be deemed admis- sible . While on this expedition , he happened to fall into conver- sation ...
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... kind . Suppose , for instance , upon terms so advan- that that peace should be made tageous to the republick , as to give them the com- mand of all the coast of Europe ; and , by enabling them , in consequence , to shut against us , in ...
... kind . Suppose , for instance , upon terms so advan- that that peace should be made tageous to the republick , as to give them the com- mand of all the coast of Europe ; and , by enabling them , in consequence , to shut against us , in ...
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