The Busy Man's Hand-Book

Historical, geographical, scriptural, scientific, legal, social, mercantile and medical information, condensed into one volume for someone with no time to look further.

CHAPTER XVIII

2 pages in this part of The Busy Man's Hand-Book.

CHAPTER XVIII

The Affairs of Europe, from the Establishment of the Hanoverian Succession in England, to the year 1740.

CHAPTER XVIII: Walpole

George I., king of England, died in 1727; but his death made no change in the politics of the cabinet, Sir Robert Walpole continuing at the…

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