The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 2John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1929 - Commonwealth countries |
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... seems not to have desired colleagues of the first rank . " The country " , wrote Gibbon in 1786 , " seems to be governed by a set of most respectable boys . " 1 " When I have finished the portrait of the minister " , wrote Wraxall in ...
... seems not to have desired colleagues of the first rank . " The country " , wrote Gibbon in 1786 , " seems to be governed by a set of most respectable boys . " 1 " When I have finished the portrait of the minister " , wrote Wraxall in ...
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... seems to have vanished from the political horizon after the American War as com- pletely as if it had never appeared upon it . No one seems to have contemplated offering seats in Parliament to the habitans of Quebec any more than to the ...
... seems to have vanished from the political horizon after the American War as com- pletely as if it had never appeared upon it . No one seems to have contemplated offering seats in Parliament to the habitans of Quebec any more than to the ...
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... seems probable that Molesworth and Buller , unable to carry the majority with them , induced the committee to make recommendations which would inevitably lead to abolition ; and that , in fact , happened . Indeed , the report condemned ...
... seems probable that Molesworth and Buller , unable to carry the majority with them , induced the committee to make recommendations which would inevitably lead to abolition ; and that , in fact , happened . Indeed , the report condemned ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
The Loyalists and Canada | 9 |
Rivalry with the Dutch | 15 |
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