Kings & Desperate Men: Life in Eighteenth-century EnglandLife in eighteenth century England in the time of the French Revolution. |
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Her court was a political court : not a trace of social splendour ever inhabited it . We do not read of brilliant formal entertainments , or of jolly , titles - be - damned picnics and parties , or of witty people providing the court ...
Her court was a political court : not a trace of social splendour ever inhabited it . We do not read of brilliant formal entertainments , or of jolly , titles - be - damned picnics and parties , or of witty people providing the court ...
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Anne's was a dull court that hatched violent plots , and George's a dull court that hatched ✓ vulgar scandals . The King had long ago taken his wife in adultery and locked her up in a fortress ; and he despised and openly quarrelled ...
Anne's was a dull court that hatched violent plots , and George's a dull court that hatched ✓ vulgar scandals . The King had long ago taken his wife in adultery and locked her up in a fortress ; and he despised and openly quarrelled ...
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At his parents ' court Bolingbroke had been both an ornament and an influence , and the philosophy of kingship he espoused in The Idea of a Patriot King had trickled through young George's brain , changing course and colour as it ran .
At his parents ' court Bolingbroke had been both an ornament and an influence , and the philosophy of kingship he espoused in The Idea of a Patriot King had trickled through young George's brain , changing course and colour as it ran .
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