Book/Printed Material Life of William Pitt, late prime minister of Great Britain, with biographical notices of his principal friends and illustrations contemporaries ...
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Image 1 of Life of William Pitt, late prime minister of Great Britain, with biographical notices ...- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 2 of Life of William Pitt, late prime minister of Great Britain, with biographical notices ... Oag ^DA^-^- 5 Book SZb_L£.- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 5 of Life of William Pitt, late prime minister of Great Britain, with biographical notices ... LIFE OF WILLIAM PITT.- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 8 of Life of William Pitt, late prime minister of Great Britain, with biographical notices ... i v u:. v fy Urdwin ;bf Watts* £di lis.- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 9 of Life of William Pitt, late prime minister of Great Britain, with biographical notices ... LIFE OF WILLIAM PITT, LATE PRIME MINISTER OF GREAT BRITAIN, WITH BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF HIS PRINCIPAL FRIENDS AND ILLUSTRIOUS COTEMPORARIES. He was a scholar, and a ripe, and a good one, Exceeding...- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 10 of Life of William Pitt, late prime minister of Great Britain, with biographical notices ... Transfer O S. Soldiers Home Libra* Jen. 25, 1938- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 11 of Life of William Pitt, late prime minister of Great Britain, with biographical notices ... PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION. IN the harmonious family of Literature, History and Biography are sisters. They are twins and both are beautiful. The port of the one is stately and martial,...- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 12 of Life of William Pitt, late prime minister of Great Britain, with biographical notices ... vi PREFACE. In describing the conflicts of Peloponesus, and the horrors of the Athenian pestilence, the story, even of Thucydides, is sometimes tiresome; while the Retreat of the Ten Thousand, and the...- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 13 of Life of William Pitt, late prime minister of Great Britain, with biographical notices ... PREFACE. vii The sagacity of Mr. Pitt as a statesman has been fully demonstrated, by his uniform polity, with respect to the French revolution. By the side of Edmund Burke, he was...- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 14 of Life of William Pitt, late prime minister of Great Britain, with biographical notices ... M PREFACE. versal suffrage, or French fraternity, the speeches of a Marat, or the massacres of a Robespierre. The loftiness and intrepidity of his spirit were visible even in his juvenile years....- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 15 of Life of William Pitt, late prime minister of Great Britain, with biographical notices ... PREFACE. ix hemisphere a new star of dazzling brilliancy, but of hor- rid portent, threatening, like a comet, the destruction of half the nations, and with fear of change perplexing jnonarchs; yet...- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 16 of Life of William Pitt, late prime minister of Great Britain, with biographical notices ... x PREFACE. under the despotism of a nobler passion. In his immor- tal romance, Cervantes makes one of its personages remark, when required to render an account of his brief administration of...- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 17 of Life of William Pitt, late prime minister of Great Britain, with biographical notices ... PREFACE. xi The writer cannot conclude this sketch without lament- ing that, at a period so eventful as the present, the world should be deprived of the talents of such a statesman....- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 18 of Life of William Pitt, late prime minister of Great Britain, with biographical notices ...- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 19 of Life of William Pitt, late prime minister of Great Britain, with biographical notices ... ANNALS LIFE OF WILLIAM PITT. THE life of WILLIAM PITT contains so much of the public and so little of the private man in its events, that the reader will pardon our...- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 20 of Life of William Pitt, late prime minister of Great Britain, with biographical notices ... 6 THE LIFE OF A. 1780. On the accession of his present majesty, that great statesman, in consequence of new arrangements, retired from the station which he had so honorably filled, and...- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 21 of Life of William Pitt, late prime minister of Great Britain, with biographical notices ... A. 178J. WILLIAM PITT. t give him, and, at the same time, by a rapid progress in the preliminary studies, qualify himself early for the se- nate, he was, at between fourteen...- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 22 of Life of William Pitt, late prime minister of Great Britain, with biographical notices ... 8 THE LIFE OF A. 1782. Young as this gentleman was, he had studied moral and political philosophy more thoroughly than most of the ablest men of the time, though of riper...- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 23 of Life of William Pitt, late prime minister of Great Britain, with biographical notices ... A. 1782. WILLIAM PITT 9 to a motion that a committee should be appointed to in- quire into the state of the representation in parliament, and to report their sentiments to the...- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 24 of Life of William Pitt, late prime minister of Great Britain, with biographical notices ... 10 THE LIFE OF A. 1783. then detail, and thought it his duty to resign. He pledg- ed himself, when circumstances would admit of a parti- cular statement of his reasons, to...- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 25 of Life of William Pitt, late prime minister of Great Britain, with biographical notices ... A. 1T83. WILLIAM PITT. II state of the representation. He left the number for fu- ture discussion, but said he should recommend one hun- dred. The arguments both for and against a...- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 26 of Life of William Pitt, late prime minister of Great Britain, with biographical notices ... 12 THE LIFE OF A. 1783. which they professed to seek he trusted the means which they would devise would be equally meritorious, in which case, they should have his warmest support....- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 27 of Life of William Pitt, late prime minister of Great Britain, with biographical notices ... A. 1783. WILLIAM PITT. 13 our liberties. The power, indeed, was pretended to be created in trust, for the benefit of the proprietors: No! but to a majority of either house of...- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 28 of Life of William Pitt, late prime minister of Great Britain, with biographical notices ... 14 THE LIFE OF A. 17*3. By the dismissal of ministers the country found itself in a new situation j about to be governed by an adminis- since distinguished themselves in both...- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 29 of Life of William Pitt, late prime minister of Great Britain, with biographical notices ... A. 1783. WILLIAM PITT. 15 tration, which a very powerful majority in the house of commons thwarted. suffered to retire, rather discomfited than vanquished, while the new ministry, in which Mr. Fox,...- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 30 of Life of William Pitt, late prime minister of Great Britain, with biographical notices ... t6 THE LIFE OF A. 1784. The new prime minister was a young man, in the twenty-fifth year of his age, supported by no family in- fluence nor political confederacy meanwhile addresses...- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 31 of Life of William Pitt, late prime minister of Great Britain, with biographical notices ... 1783. WILLIAM PITT. 17 proposition that a minister ought not to continue in office without the support of the commons, was carried in that house by 205 against 184; but in the...- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 32 of Life of William Pitt, late prime minister of Great Britain, with biographical notices ... J8 THE LIFE OF A. 1783. spective principles. Mr. Fox insisted, that it was uncon- stitutional in Mr. Pitt to hold his place after such a vote of the house of commons;...- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 33 of Life of William Pitt, late prime minister of Great Britain, with biographical notices ... A. 1734. WILLIAM PITT. fi senator or statesman among an informed, distinguishing and free people. Mr. Fox, though transcendant in genius, sought power by means, which during the two preceding reigns, had...- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 34 of Life of William Pitt, late prime minister of Great Britain, with biographical notices ... 20 THE LIFE OF A. 1784. ruin of the smuggling trade, which subsisted almost en- tirely on the profit of teas. Another benefit would be the timely and necessary relief it would...- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 35 of Life of William Pitt, late prime minister of Great Britain, with biographical notices ... A. 1784. WILLIAM PITT. 21 quillity. Various regulations were added, respecting the debts of the Nabob of Arcot, and the Rajah of Tan- jore, to private individuals and to the company. The...- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 36 of Life of William Pitt, late prime minister of Great Britain, with biographical notices ... 22 THE LIFE OF A. 1785. in Great Britain, charged with crimes committed in In- dia; a court was established, to consist of three judges, nominated respectively by the chancery, king s...- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 37 of Life of William Pitt, late prime minister of Great Britain, with biographical notices ... A. 1785. WILLIAM PITT. 23 chise certain decayed boroughs. In relations between government and the subject it was a manifest rule in ju- risprudence on the one hand) that the interest of...- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 38 of Life of William Pitt, late prime minister of Great Britain, with biographical notices ... 24 THE LIFE OF A. 1785. investigating the evidence, Mr. Pitt, on the 12th of May, 1785, proposed twenty resolutions, containing a full ex- planation of the terms before proposed, and also...- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 39 of Life of William Pitt, late prime minister of Great Britain, with biographical notices ... A. 1786. WILLIAM PITT. 25 that there would be such a surplus as would enable par- liament to appropriate one million sterling to a sinking fund, for the discharge of the national...- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 40 of Life of William Pitt, late prime minister of Great Britain, with biographical notices ... 26 THE LIFE OF A. 1786. investigate and exactly ascertain the public income and expenditure, and strike the balance; the result of the in- vestigation from the income of the year 1785...- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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