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... by Anthony T rollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...eries Publication The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... who were themselves somebodies in their time. No doubt we all enter- tain great respect for those who by their own energies have raised themselves in... ...ame a duke, had held very high office, having been the Chancel- lor of the Exchequer. When he was transferred, perforce, to the House of Lords, he had... ...ean that you shall do the foreign affairs.’ ‘You’d better let me be at the exchequer. I’m very good at accounts.’ ‘I’ll do that myself. The accounts t... ...e list of subordinates. Noblesse oblige. The Secretaries of State, and the Chancellors, and the First Lords, selected from this or the other party fel... ...wers had had deputa- 102 The Prime Minister tion after deputation to many Chancellors of the Exchequer; and these deputations had been most respectab...

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...Preface: A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not laboring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which po...

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