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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... common with a party that was violently High - Church . What he did have in common with the Tory outlook was a fierce and old - fashioned patrician instinct . With his early idol Harley he had nothing in common at all ; and " the ...
... common with a party that was violently High - Church . What he did have in common with the Tory outlook was a fierce and old - fashioned patrician instinct . With his early idol Harley he had nothing in common at all ; and " the ...
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... common sense said it was ghastly , common sense also said it was un- avoidable . Lady Mary had the sharp insight of her age , and the blunted moral awareness . And to please meant for the most part to please oneself . Lady Mary had to ...
... common sense said it was ghastly , common sense also said it was un- avoidable . Lady Mary had the sharp insight of her age , and the blunted moral awareness . And to please meant for the most part to please oneself . Lady Mary had to ...
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... common sense he is credited with having remains , I think , to be questioned . The man had lived in the world , he had been poor and miserable , he had seen a great deal of human greed , hypocrisy , and pre- tension . From that point of ...
... common sense he is credited with having remains , I think , to be questioned . The man had lived in the world , he had been poor and miserable , he had seen a great deal of human greed , hypocrisy , and pre- tension . From that point of ...
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