 Instead of gathering strength, either as a Ministry or as a party, we grew weaker every day. The peace had been judged, with reason, to be the only solid foundation whereupon we could erect a Tory system; and yet when it was made we found ourselves at...  History of Queen Anne - Sivu 231tekijä(t) Jonathan Swift - 1801Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
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...become the governing factor in setting the Tory party as a whole on a perilous and injurious course: 'the very work which ought to have been the basis of our strength', as the 'man of mercury' himself came to acknowledge,12 'was in part demolished before our eyes, and... | |
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