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Page 209
... majority at their backs was no insurance against disaster once the Queen's hostility had become implacable . Yet the ... majority , had been dissolved.79 And it does seem that a very important clue to this strange insensitivity was that ...
... majority at their backs was no insurance against disaster once the Queen's hostility had become implacable . Yet the ... majority , had been dissolved.79 And it does seem that a very important clue to this strange insensitivity was that ...
Page 248
... majority in the House of Commons , that by the end of 1716 it had ceased for good to be a serious competitor for political power . That the Tories did command a natural majority of supporters in the political nation was a fact which few ...
... majority in the House of Commons , that by the end of 1716 it had ceased for good to be a serious competitor for political power . That the Tories did command a natural majority of supporters in the political nation was a fact which few ...
Page 343
... majority vote gave even the rawest and most inarticulate member an unusual sense of participa- tion . But the quality which most distinguished the October Club from all other comparable groups was the fiery , crusading zeal which ...
... majority vote gave even the rawest and most inarticulate member an unusual sense of participa- tion . But the quality which most distinguished the October Club from all other comparable groups was the fiery , crusading zeal which ...
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