The History of Ireland from Its Union with Great Britain, in January 1801, to October 1810, Volume 2J. Boyce, 1811 |
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... Lordship , No considera , " tion of personal case , no apprehension of responsibility , nor reluctance to meet the real situation , into which the country has been brought , have any weight in this decision ; nor are we " fettered by ...
... Lordship , No considera , " tion of personal case , no apprehension of responsibility , nor reluctance to meet the real situation , into which the country has been brought , have any weight in this decision ; nor are we " fettered by ...
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... Lordship ended his letter with what amounts to his absolute conviction of Mr. Pitt's insincerity .. We are " certainly not ignorant of the difficulties , which might have " obstructed the final accomplishment of such an object , how ...
... Lordship ended his letter with what amounts to his absolute conviction of Mr. Pitt's insincerity .. We are " certainly not ignorant of the difficulties , which might have " obstructed the final accomplishment of such an object , how ...
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... Lordship , as made by the Judge from the bench , they could not be presumed to have passed in court . That circumstance would have aggravated the delinquency of the Judge , and When this matter was on in the Lords on the 27th of June ...
... Lordship , as made by the Judge from the bench , they could not be presumed to have passed in court . That circumstance would have aggravated the delinquency of the Judge , and When this matter was on in the Lords on the 27th of June ...
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... Lordship was open , if he thought fit , to obtain redress from the law courts for any injury he might have suffered from the gross and wanton insult , which he complained had been offered to him by Judge Fox . His Lordship's object and ...
... Lordship was open , if he thought fit , to obtain redress from the law courts for any injury he might have suffered from the gross and wanton insult , which he complained had been offered to him by Judge Fox . His Lordship's object and ...
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... Lordship was on the occasion so fearfully alarmed at the critical state of affairs , that he most urgently pressed and supplicated his Royal Highness to step forward , and save the Empire from destruction by accepting the sole and un ...
... Lordship was on the occasion so fearfully alarmed at the critical state of affairs , that he most urgently pressed and supplicated his Royal Highness to step forward , and save the Empire from destruction by accepting the sole and un ...
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