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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... Mary LADY MARY MONTAGU was the most interesting English- woman of her century . Very much of a personage and some- thing of an eccentric , she revealed in both roles - as it is reasonable to expect - an independent mind . Her eccen ...
... Mary LADY MARY MONTAGU was the most interesting English- woman of her century . Very much of a personage and some- thing of an eccentric , she revealed in both roles - as it is reasonable to expect - an independent mind . Her eccen ...
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... Mary and adopted the tone of a moralist toward her . There could have been no worse way of losing the lady . She grew inflamed with passion that was partly pique ; and when her father opposed the match because Wortley would not settle ...
... Mary and adopted the tone of a moralist toward her . There could have been no worse way of losing the lady . She grew inflamed with passion that was partly pique ; and when her father opposed the match because Wortley would not settle ...
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... Mary had been bred and of which , spite of all her oddities , she was a representative part . Its responsibilities were confined to the drawing - room ; its generosities stopped with playing the patron or requiting compliments . To ...
... Mary had been bred and of which , spite of all her oddities , she was a representative part . Its responsibilities were confined to the drawing - room ; its generosities stopped with playing the patron or requiting compliments . To ...
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