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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... Whigs were continuing the war for their own advantage , and that Marlborough was directing it for his . Such charges may have been unjust , but they could not be called unreason- able : France , whipped and bleeding , was not being ...
... Whigs were continuing the war for their own advantage , and that Marlborough was directing it for his . Such charges may have been unjust , but they could not be called unreason- able : France , whipped and bleeding , was not being ...
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... Whig power at his back gave him security until graver charges could be levied . When they were , he and the Whigs were indicted together : he and the Whigs were accused of wilfully , selfishly pro- longing the war and obstructing the ...
... Whig power at his back gave him security until graver charges could be levied . When they were , he and the Whigs were indicted together : he and the Whigs were accused of wilfully , selfishly pro- longing the war and obstructing the ...
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... Whigs commanded at the Queen's death was not to pass out of their hands for upwards of forty years . Harley and Bolingbroke had ruined the Tory interest by the same tactics with which they ruined themselves ; but something beyond Tory ...
... Whigs commanded at the Queen's death was not to pass out of their hands for upwards of forty years . Harley and Bolingbroke had ruined the Tory interest by the same tactics with which they ruined themselves ; but something beyond Tory ...
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