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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... King became the centre of a predatory opposition which resisted all that the King espoused . It was no wonder that when the father died in 1727 , the Walpole who had enjoyed the old King's favour should have expected the new King's ill ...
... King became the centre of a predatory opposition which resisted all that the King espoused . It was no wonder that when the father died in 1727 , the Walpole who had enjoyed the old King's favour should have expected the new King's ill ...
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... king George II in particular had tried to be assertive - each had kept his throne through Whig support , which in ... king . At his parents ' court Bolingbroke had been both an ornament and an influence , and the philosophy of king- ship ...
... king George II in particular had tried to be assertive - each had kept his throne through Whig support , which in ... king . At his parents ' court Bolingbroke had been both an ornament and an influence , and the philosophy of king- ship ...
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... King did ; he had a strong regard for the Crown ; and it was actually with the help of the Whig oligarchy that he was driven from office . Yet the King disliked him , for Pitt was a commanding leader , and George wanted complaisant ...
... King did ; he had a strong regard for the Crown ; and it was actually with the help of the Whig oligarchy that he was driven from office . Yet the King disliked him , for Pitt was a commanding leader , and George wanted complaisant ...
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