Memoirs of the Duke of Marlborough: With His Original Correspondence, Collected from the Family Records at Blenheim and Other Authentic Sources, Volume 2Bell & Daldy, 1872 |
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... less teem with similar feuds , and Marlborough was exposed to superior disquietude , in consequence of the struggle which arose from the deter- mination of the Whigs to persist in their purpose of trans- ferring the seals of the ...
... less teem with similar feuds , and Marlborough was exposed to superior disquietude , in consequence of the struggle which arose from the deter- mination of the Whigs to persist in their purpose of trans- ferring the seals of the ...
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... less alarmed than the queen at the design which he had announced of retiring . Without delay he deprecated his resolution as no less inju- rious to his friends and country than to Europe in general . - " Vilaine , Sept. 9. — In yours of ...
... less alarmed than the queen at the design which he had announced of retiring . Without delay he deprecated his resolution as no less inju- rious to his friends and country than to Europe in general . - " Vilaine , Sept. 9. — In yours of ...
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... shall be the better able to go through what I must endure in this country ; for upon the success we have had this year , our friends grow less governable than when they were afraid of the French 1706. ] 15 GODOLPHIN OBNOXIOUS TO THE WHIGS .
... shall be the better able to go through what I must endure in this country ; for upon the success we have had this year , our friends grow less governable than when they were afraid of the French 1706. ] 15 GODOLPHIN OBNOXIOUS TO THE WHIGS .
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... less governable than when they were afraid of the French . As I have no farther prospect of doing any more service to the public this campaign , but that of putting Courtray in a condition , every day is very tedious ; and for the two ...
... less governable than when they were afraid of the French . As I have no farther prospect of doing any more service to the public this campaign , but that of putting Courtray in a condition , every day is very tedious ; and for the two ...
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... less a majority . They have endeavoured their ruin ; nay , they have proceeded so far as to proscribe ( to use the words of a zealous Whig and no whimsical + ) many of their own party . In short , the lay and ecclesiastical policy is ...
... less a majority . They have endeavoured their ruin ; nay , they have proceeded so far as to proscribe ( to use the words of a zealous Whig and no whimsical + ) many of their own party . In short , the lay and ecclesiastical policy is ...
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