Diversions of a Prime MinisterBlackwood, 1894 - 407 páginas |
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... received , as was right and proper , a decoration from the German Emperor . Then Unga , the premier and the king's son , died in Auckland , and Mr Baker , out of his love for the king , brought back the body to Tonga in a German man ...
... received , as was right and proper , a decoration from the German Emperor . Then Unga , the premier and the king's son , died in Auckland , and Mr Baker , out of his love for the king , brought back the body to Tonga in a German man ...
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... received higher salaries for their loyalty to their sovereign . The king's influence was enormous , but Mr Baker had slightly overrated it ; for , in spite of all persuasions and threats , a very re- spectable minority were left who ...
... received higher salaries for their loyalty to their sovereign . The king's influence was enormous , but Mr Baker had slightly overrated it ; for , in spite of all persuasions and threats , a very re- spectable minority were left who ...
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... receiving his answer in the form of a catalogue of his more notorious breaches of faith . War was declared , and Mr Baker's only resource was to cut off stragglers and impede the baggage - train of the enemy . He would not , he said ...
... receiving his answer in the form of a catalogue of his more notorious breaches of faith . War was declared , and Mr Baker's only resource was to cut off stragglers and impede the baggage - train of the enemy . He would not , he said ...
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... received the bill for his entertainment in Auckland ; but I have reason to fear that the debt is still owing , although he has long ago come into his kingdom and the command of his privy purse . A little later his Majesty himself came ...
... received the bill for his entertainment in Auckland ; but I have reason to fear that the debt is still owing , although he has long ago come into his kingdom and the command of his privy purse . A little later his Majesty himself came ...
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... received information that they were preparing to make Mr Baker run the gauntlet of a shower of rotten eggs as he went along the wharf to embark . There was also a growing disposition among the natives to make an attack on him before he ...
... received information that they were preparing to make Mr Baker run the gauntlet of a shower of rotten eggs as he went along the wharf to embark . There was also a growing disposition among the natives to make an attack on him before he ...
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