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Peerage of England. ... - Page 475
by Arthur Collins - 1812
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Library of Oratory: Embracing Select Speeches of Celebrated ..., Volume 3

1845 - 554 pages
...reproducer of this fatal scheme; whom I cannot even now remember without some degree of sensibility. In truth, Sir, he was the delight and ornament of...house, and the charm of every private society which he honored with his presence. Perhaps there never arose in this country, nor in any country, a man of...
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Crosby's Parliamentary Record of Elections in Great Britain and ..., Volume 1

George Crosby - 1847 - 424 pages
...remained in office until his decease, on the 4th of September, 1767. Burke says of him, " In truth he was the delight and ornament of this house, and...private society which he honoured with his presence." CHABLES JENK1NSON, EAEL OF L1VEBPOOL. The eldest son of Colonel Charles Jenkinson, was born on the...
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Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine to which is Added, the ...

1851 - 560 pages
...reproducer of this fatal scheme; whom I cannot even now remember without some degree of sensibility. In truth, Sir, he was the delight and ornament of...house, and the charm of every private society which he honored with his presence. Perhaps there never arose in this country, nor in any country, a man of...
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Select British Eloquence; Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 978 pages
...reproducer of this (Vital •scheme, whom 1 can not even now remember -.vithout some degree of sensibility. In truth, sir, he was the delight and ornament of this House, and the charm of every society which he honored with his presence. Perhaps there never arose in this country, nor in any country,...
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Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 976 pages
...reproducer of this fatal scheme, whom I can not even now remember without some degree of sensibility. In truth, sir, he was the delight and ornament of this House, and the charm of every society which he honored with his presence. Perhaps there never arose in this country, nor in any country,...
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Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 968 pages
...reproducer of this fatal scheme, whom I can not even now remember without some degree of sensibility. In truth, sir, he was the delight and ornament of this House, and the charm of every society which he honored with his presence. Perhaps there never arose in this country, nor in any country,...
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A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen, Volume 5

George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 516 pages
...— American taxation ; whom I cannot even now remember without some degree of sensibility. In truth, he was the delight and ornament of this house, and...arose in this country, nor in any country, a man of more pointed and finished wit, and, where his passions were not concerned, of a more refined, exquisite,...
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Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1853 - 972 pages
...sir, he was the delight and ornament of this House, and the charm of every society which he honored with his presence. Perhaps there never arose in this...any country, a man of a more pointed and finished svit, and (where his passions were not concerned) of a more refined, exquisite, and penetrating judgment....
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Longer exercises in Latin prose composition, chiefly tr. from the writings ...

John William Donaldson - 1853 - 244 pages
...without some degree of sensibility.4 In truth, sir, he was the delight and ornament of this house,6 and the charm of every private society which he honoured with his presence.6 Perhaps7 there never arose in this country, nor in any country. a man of a more pointed...
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Memoirs of Richard Cumberland

Richard Cumberland - 1856 - 414 pages
...high career. Burke thus portrays him as an orator, when his light had ' passed and set for ever.' ' In truth, sir, he was the delight and ornament of...house, and the charm of every private society which he honored with his presence. Perhaps there never arose in this country, nor in any country, a man of...
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