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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... Tories , on the other hand , were the nation's land- owners and freeholders ; and the war , far from enriching them through trade , impoverished them with taxes . Once England got the upper hand over France , the hard - bled Tories ...
... Tories , on the other hand , were the nation's land- owners and freeholders ; and the war , far from enriching them through trade , impoverished them with taxes . Once England got the upper hand over France , the hard - bled Tories ...
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... Tories backed him with apprehension ; and as time passed , both Marlborough and his ally at the Treasury , Godolphin , realized where their real support lay and abandoned the Tory camp . By 1708 the Whigs were actually in control , with ...
... Tories backed him with apprehension ; and as time passed , both Marlborough and his ally at the Treasury , Godolphin , realized where their real support lay and abandoned the Tory camp . By 1708 the Whigs were actually in control , with ...
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... Tories and the nation at large was a defensive war , was for the more knowing of the Whigs a great profiteering expedi- tion . The capitalist egg , laid in Tudor times , was hatched in England under Anne . And it was vilely hatched , by ...
... Tories and the nation at large was a defensive war , was for the more knowing of the Whigs a great profiteering expedi- tion . The capitalist egg , laid in Tudor times , was hatched in England under Anne . And it was vilely hatched , by ...
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