The Greville Memoirs (second Part): A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria, from 1837 to 1852Longmans, Green, and Company, 1885 - Great Britain |
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... reason . The English counties have made a very important demonstration in their favour ; they have not lost in the towns , and the Radicals have been almost everywhere defeated . This latter circumstance is exceedingly satisfactory ...
... reason . The English counties have made a very important demonstration in their favour ; they have not lost in the towns , and the Radicals have been almost everywhere defeated . This latter circumstance is exceedingly satisfactory ...
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... reason to believe that she thinks she has been ill - used by both of them for some years past . Her manner to the Duchess is , however , irreproachable , and they appear to be on cordial and affec- tionate terms . Madame de Lehzen is ...
... reason to believe that she thinks she has been ill - used by both of them for some years past . Her manner to the Duchess is , however , irreproachable , and they appear to be on cordial and affec- tionate terms . Madame de Lehzen is ...
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... reason , they ought to have put an end to the humiliating contest by an assertion of Imperial power . All that can be said is , that they tried the conciliatory power too long . Burghley , January 2nd , 1838. - Among other changes of 1 ...
... reason , they ought to have put an end to the humiliating contest by an assertion of Imperial power . All that can be said is , that they tried the conciliatory power too long . Burghley , January 2nd , 1838. - Among other changes of 1 ...
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... reason I have never done anything of this sort is partly that I have been too idle , and the result partly of modesty and partly of vanity . A journal to be good , true , and interesting , should be written without the slightest refe ...
... reason I have never done anything of this sort is partly that I have been too idle , and the result partly of modesty and partly of vanity . A journal to be good , true , and interesting , should be written without the slightest refe ...
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... reason why I should abandon the design of im- provement in despair , for it is never too late to mend , and a great deal may yet be done . ; Beaudesert , ' January 12th . - On Monday went to Sutton nobody there but Mr. Hodgson ...
... reason why I should abandon the design of im- provement in despair , for it is never too late to mend , and a great deal may yet be done . ; Beaudesert , ' January 12th . - On Monday went to Sutton nobody there but Mr. Hodgson ...
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