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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... London for encouragement and support ; and if London seemed displeased , Parliament grew concerned . On more than one occasion the City threatened to cause trouble , either by forcing Parliament's hand or by paralys- ing it . At Anne's ...
... London for encouragement and support ; and if London seemed displeased , Parliament grew concerned . On more than one occasion the City threatened to cause trouble , either by forcing Parliament's hand or by paralys- ing it . At Anne's ...
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... London penny post , which not only made letter - writing to points in or near the city cheap , but made deliveries regular and frequent . The rise of news- papers dates from this same period . In the seventeenth cen- tury there had been ...
... London penny post , which not only made letter - writing to points in or near the city cheap , but made deliveries regular and frequent . The rise of news- papers dates from this same period . In the seventeenth cen- tury there had been ...
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... London and some of the watering - places that we encounter the alternation of pace , variety of manners , currency of ideas , and gloss of personality that offer the historian an almanac . Rustic life has much more of a same- ness about ...
... London and some of the watering - places that we encounter the alternation of pace , variety of manners , currency of ideas , and gloss of personality that offer the historian an almanac . Rustic life has much more of a same- ness about ...
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