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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... French Revolution . And certainly the most successful : his furious blasts made men quake for the future of Britain , helped force Pitt to suppress British civil liberties , gave the nation an appetite for war , inflamed the nation ...
... French Revolution . And certainly the most successful : his furious blasts made men quake for the future of Britain , helped force Pitt to suppress British civil liberties , gave the nation an appetite for war , inflamed the nation ...
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... French Revolution was a book that every gentleman ought to read . With his own hand Louis XVI translated it into French . The King of Poland sent Burke a gold medal . All the people he had spent a lifetime denouncing - the most backward ...
... French Revolution was a book that every gentleman ought to read . With his own hand Louis XVI translated it into French . The King of Poland sent Burke a gold medal . All the people he had spent a lifetime denouncing - the most backward ...
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... French Revolution . At the fall of the Bastille most Englishmen rejoiced , assuming that the French would now take to themselves a constitution and form of government minutely patterned on the English . But the pent - up passions , the ...
... French Revolution . At the fall of the Bastille most Englishmen rejoiced , assuming that the French would now take to themselves a constitution and form of government minutely patterned on the English . But the pent - up passions , the ...
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