History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles: 1713-1783J. Murray, 1838 - Great Britain |
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... Gibraltar ................................. .. Preliminaries of Peace signed at Paris .................. 161 Intrigues of Bolingbroke with the Duchess of Kendal 162 His interview with the King . ........ The King sets out for Hanover ...
... Gibraltar ................................. .. Preliminaries of Peace signed at Paris .................. 161 Intrigues of Bolingbroke with the Duchess of Kendal 162 His interview with the King . ........ The King sets out for Hanover ...
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... Gibraltar by the Spaniards His policy pursued by Lord Townshend Letter of George the First ........ 190 191 192 194 196 197 Impatience of the Queen of Spain ..... 199 Debates in Parliament upon this subject ............ 201 Mission of ...
... Gibraltar by the Spaniards His policy pursued by Lord Townshend Letter of George the First ........ 190 191 192 194 196 197 Impatience of the Queen of Spain ..... 199 Debates in Parliament upon this subject ............ 201 Mission of ...
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... Gibraltar and Port Mahon for some places in Peru ! The South Sea trade was again vaunted as the best avenue to wealth ; objections were unheard or over - ruled ; and the friends of Lord Oxford might exult to see his visions adopted by ...
... Gibraltar and Port Mahon for some places in Peru ! The South Sea trade was again vaunted as the best avenue to wealth ; objections were unheard or over - ruled ; and the friends of Lord Oxford might exult to see his visions adopted by ...
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... Gibraltar ) for a future Congress at Cambray . That Congress , from various petty difficulties and delays , did not meet till January , 1724 , and even then its proceedings were languid and without result . In fact , the Spanish Court ...
... Gibraltar ) for a future Congress at Cambray . That Congress , from various petty difficulties and delays , did not meet till January , 1724 , and even then its proceedings were languid and without result . In fact , the Spanish Court ...
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... Gibraltar , and then Minorca , for Spain ; and , in case of refusal , to combine for the restitution of these by force , and for the enthronement of the Pretender in England . A motive of religion was also mingled in the latter project ...
... Gibraltar , and then Minorca , for Spain ; and , in case of refusal , to combine for the restitution of these by force , and for the enthronement of the Pretender in England . A motive of religion was also mingled in the latter project ...
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66 CHAP affairs afterwards answer appeared Bill Bishop Atterbury Bolingbroke Carteret Chesterfield Church cloth lettered Court Coxe's Walpole death declared DISM Duchess of Kendal Duke of Newcastle Duke of Wharton Earl Edition Emperor England English Excise favour Fleury foreign France friends George Gibraltar Government hand Hanover Hist honour hopes Horace Walpole House of Commons Inverness Jacobites James King King's Lady less Lockhart Lord Midleton Lord Townshend Madame de Prie Madrid Majesty Memoirs ment METHO minister nation never observed occasion opposition Ostend Company Paris Parliament party passed persons Pope present Pretender Prince proposed Pulteney qu'il Queen received Ripperda Royal says scarcely Schaub scheme Secretary seems sent Sir Robert Sir William Wyndham South Sea South Sea Company Spain Spanish speech spirit Sunderland Swift thing thought Tories treaty treaty of Hanover TURE Vienna Walpole's Wesley Whigs William Stanhope writes Wyndham
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Page 346 - ... their manner of writing is very peculiar, being neither from the left to the right, like the Europeans ; nor from the right to the left, like the Arabians ; nor from up to down, like the Chinese ; but aslant, from one corner of the paper to the other, like ladies in England.