The Georgian Era: The royal family. The pretenders and their adherents. Churchmen. Dissenters. StatesmenVizetelly, Branston and Company, 1832 - Art |
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... formed to assas- sinate the king , by a political fanatic , named James Shepherd , a youth under nineteen years of age . He had imbibed from childhood the highest principles of monarchical right ; and regarding George the First as an ...
... formed to assas- sinate the king , by a political fanatic , named James Shepherd , a youth under nineteen years of age . He had imbibed from childhood the highest principles of monarchical right ; and regarding George the First as an ...
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... was , that George the First , as Elector of Hanover , should declare war against the Swedish monarch , Charles the Twelfth ; who , on his part , formed an alliance with the Czar , one of the objects of GEORGE THE FIRST . 27.
... was , that George the First , as Elector of Hanover , should declare war against the Swedish monarch , Charles the Twelfth ; who , on his part , formed an alliance with the Czar , one of the objects of GEORGE THE FIRST . 27.
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... formed new defensive alliances with some of the continental powers ; and , supposing Russia to have entered into the views of Spain and the emperor , he had sent a squadron , under Sir Charles Wager , to block up her fleet in the port ...
... formed new defensive alliances with some of the continental powers ; and , supposing Russia to have entered into the views of Spain and the emperor , he had sent a squadron , under Sir Charles Wager , to block up her fleet in the port ...
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... formed a tolerably accu- rate prototype of that which afterwards occurred between George the Second and Prince Frederick . During the differences between George the First and his son , Walpole , and the other leaders of that sub ...
... formed a tolerably accu- rate prototype of that which afterwards occurred between George the Second and Prince Frederick . During the differences between George the First and his son , Walpole , and the other leaders of that sub ...
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... formed a design of shutting up St. James's Park , and asked Sir Robert Walpole what it would cost to do it . " Only a crown , madam , " was the reply ; and she in- stantly owned her imprudence with a good - natured smile . When , during ...
... formed a design of shutting up St. James's Park , and asked Sir Robert Walpole what it would cost to do it . " Only a crown , madam , " was the reply ; and she in- stantly owned her imprudence with a good - natured smile . When , during ...
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