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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... Jacobite rebellion 1719 - Robinson Crusoe 1720 - South Sea Bubble 1721 - beginning of the Walpole administration 1722- Wood's Halfpence 1727 - Gulliver's Travels GEORGE II [ reigned 1727-60 ] 1728- The Beggar's Opera 1732- The Harlot's ...
... Jacobite rebellion 1719 - Robinson Crusoe 1720 - South Sea Bubble 1721 - beginning of the Walpole administration 1722- Wood's Halfpence 1727 - Gulliver's Travels GEORGE II [ reigned 1727-60 ] 1728- The Beggar's Opera 1732- The Harlot's ...
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... Jacobite mob turned a skimpy Whig celebration into a brawl . Jacobite sentiment persisted at Oxford long after Jaco- bitism had become a hopeless cause . While the Whig power held - and it held unbroken until after the accession of ...
... Jacobite mob turned a skimpy Whig celebration into a brawl . Jacobite sentiment persisted at Oxford long after Jaco- bitism had become a hopeless cause . While the Whig power held - and it held unbroken until after the accession of ...
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... Jacobite lords . These , it should be said , are anything but florid : in them Walpole's passion for the eloquent detail provides insight into charac- ter , and stunning dramatic effects : When they [ the Jacobite lords ] were brought ...
... Jacobite lords . These , it should be said , are anything but florid : in them Walpole's passion for the eloquent detail provides insight into charac- ter , and stunning dramatic effects : When they [ the Jacobite lords ] were brought ...
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