Kings & Desperate Men: Life in Eighteenth-century EnglandA. A. Knopf, 1942 - 323 sivua Life in eighteenth century England in the time of the French Revolution. |
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... England's favourite painters came from abroad . But her taste in foreigners did nothing to mitigate the stigma of having no good painters of her own . In times past she had imported such men as Holbein , Van Dyck , Rubens , and Lely ...
... England's favourite painters came from abroad . But her taste in foreigners did nothing to mitigate the stigma of having no good painters of her own . In times past she had imported such men as Holbein , Van Dyck , Rubens , and Lely ...
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... England as inde- pendent colonies - much as Canada and Australia were to become . ) But the North ministry allowed itself to think that if it came to war , England could whip the rebels hands down ; and so it came to war . At the start ...
... England as inde- pendent colonies - much as Canada and Australia were to become . ) But the North ministry allowed itself to think that if it came to war , England could whip the rebels hands down ; and so it came to war . At the start ...
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... England , to end all others . The Whig principles which promoted it , and the Whig policy which grew out of it ... England , as in Ireland or India , he could honestly urge its improve- ment ; wherever the political structure was ...
... England , to end all others . The Whig principles which promoted it , and the Whig policy which grew out of it ... England , as in Ireland or India , he could honestly urge its improve- ment ; wherever the political structure was ...
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