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Hace 4 días · Boswell's remark to Sir George Staunton that Johnson 'always took care to put Sir Robert Walpole in the wrong' is illustrated here by Johnson's 'Debate in the Senate of Lilliput' that reported the fall of 'Sir Rub. Walelup' in 1742 (GM 12, 1742, pp. 344, 466-71 and 507-11).
Hace 4 días · Sir Robert Walpole. Sir Robert Walpole. Sir, 'If Gentlemen knew of how little Consequence it is to the Interest of the Minister (for I see no Reason why I may not use that Word too) whether this Motion is or is not agreed to, they would think they had spent their Time very indifferently in this Debate.
22 de may. de 2024 · In successive chapters, then, we are taken through the early years of the king's reign; his relationship with Sir Robert Walpole, first minister when George came to the throne, who eventually fell in February 1742, despite the king's wish to keep him in office; the crisis years of the War of the Austrian Succession, the Forty-Five Rebellion, and the ministerial instability of 1742-6; the ...
Hace 6 días · Robert Walpole became England first prime minister on May 15, 1730. In 1791 Maximilien Robespierre proposed the “Self-denying Ordinance”. The National Constituent Assembly dissolved itself on 30 September 1791.
22 de may. de 2024 · Robert Walpole is regarded by historians as the first Prime Minister of Britain though the title was never used during his lifetime. Here are ten questions about his life.
Hace 6 días · The King’s Jews: Money, Massacre and Exodus in Medieval England. London, Continuum, 2010, ISBN: 9781847251862; 256pp.; Price: £30.00. There was a time, not so long ago, when the history of the Jewish communities of 12th- and 13th-century England was a neglected subject in English historical studies. No longer.
Hace 5 días · George I (born May 28, 1660, Osnabrück, Hanover [Germany]—died June 11, 1727, Osnabrück) was the elector of Hanover (1698–1727) and the first Hanoverian king of Great Britain (1714–27). George Louis of Brunswick-Lüneburg was the son of Ernest Augustus, elector of Hanover, and Sophia of the Palatinate, a granddaughter of King James I of ...
