Kings & Desperate Men: Life in Eighteenth-century EnglandA. A. Knopf, 1942 - 323 sivua Life in eighteenth century England in the time of the French Revolution. |
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... Pitt - " the cleverest child I ever saw , and brought up so strictly and so proper in his behaviour " - she said at ... Pitt announced that , if invited , he would join the new administration only in an important capacity . At twenty ...
... Pitt - " the cleverest child I ever saw , and brought up so strictly and so proper in his behaviour " - she said at ... Pitt announced that , if invited , he would join the new administration only in an important capacity . At twenty ...
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... Pitt took office lacking one of its requirements : he had no majority in the House of Commons . What he did have was the support of the people , who were furious with Fox ; and at the next election such of them as could vote revealed ...
... Pitt took office lacking one of its requirements : he had no majority in the House of Commons . What he did have was the support of the people , who were furious with Fox ; and at the next election such of them as could vote revealed ...
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... Pitt resigned ; not , as it hap- pens , over the war , but over his failure to bring about Catholic emancipation in Ireland . That one liberal aim still inspired him , but the King was adamantine . Three years later Pitt came back to ...
... Pitt resigned ; not , as it hap- pens , over the war , but over his failure to bring about Catholic emancipation in Ireland . That one liberal aim still inspired him , but the King was adamantine . Three years later Pitt came back to ...
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