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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... Queen's fierce hostility to Marlborough's Duchess , once her favourite ; the Queen's secret alliance - through her new favourite , Mrs Masham - with so powerful a Tory as Robert Harley ; above everything , the Queen's power to appoint ...
... Queen's fierce hostility to Marlborough's Duchess , once her favourite ; the Queen's secret alliance - through her new favourite , Mrs Masham - with so powerful a Tory as Robert Harley ; above everything , the Queen's power to appoint ...
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... Queen , ever laxer at his job , hence easier to remove and so supplant . Time pressed painfully , for the Queen was dying . Yet time was needed , for Bolingbroke had no mature plans or respectable allies , no sure way of keeping afloat ...
... Queen , ever laxer at his job , hence easier to remove and so supplant . Time pressed painfully , for the Queen was dying . Yet time was needed , for Bolingbroke had no mature plans or respectable allies , no sure way of keeping afloat ...
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... Queen in her who asked for it a little affection and gratitude . Sarah had wit , had brawn , had spirit ; Sarah had a manner that could nonplus the bold and silence the proud ; but except toward the man she married , Sarah had no heart ...
... Queen in her who asked for it a little affection and gratitude . Sarah had wit , had brawn , had spirit ; Sarah had a manner that could nonplus the bold and silence the proud ; but except toward the man she married , Sarah had no heart ...
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