Identifier: historyofallnati18wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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- produced a numberof men of weight, was wearied with playing the part, between thetwo great divisions of the nobihty (the Tories and the Whigs), of aninactive spectator of the struggle for the possession of power. Thusthere arose a reform party, which included also some of the younger DEMANDS FOR REFORM. 91 Whiles. In the Lower House it found only isolated adherents, suchas Francis liurdctt, Lord Cochiane, Henry Brougham, and llouiiily;but it acquired influence over public opinion. To all these demands and endeavors of a new age the Liverpool
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