History of England: From the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles, 1713-1783, 第 2 巻Little, Brown, 1853 |
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affairs afterwards Aislabie answer appears Appendix became Bill Bishop Atterbury Bolingbroke Brodrick to Lord Carteret Chesterfield Court Coxe's Walpole death declared Duchess of Kendal Duke of Newcastle Duke of Wharton Earl Emperor England English favour Fleury foreign France French friends George Gibraltar Government Hanover Hist honour hopes Horace Walpole House of Commons House of Lords Inverness Jacobites James James's King King's Lady less letter Lockhart Lord Hervey Lord Midleton Lord Townshend Madame de Prie Madrid Majesty measure Memoirs ment Minister nation negotiations never object observed occasion Opposition Ostend Company Paris Parliament party passed persons Pope Pretender Prince proposed Pulteney Queen received resentment restoration Ripperda Royal says scarcely Schaub Scotland secret Secretary seems sent Session Sir Robert soon South Sea Company South Sea Scheme Spain Spanish Speech spirit Sunderland Swift talents temper thought tion Tories treaty treaty of Hanover Vienna Walpole's Whigs writes Wyndham
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