"What is that fat gentleman in such a passion about?"
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As a young boy, on hearing Charles James Fox speak in Parliament: cited in G. W. E. Russell, Collections and Recollections (1898), ch. 11
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Charles James Fox
1749 – 1806
englischer Staatsmann und Rhetoriker
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