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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... died her enemy . Her brother - in - law Wil- liam , as King , had never treated her well and too often treated her badly . Her husband was kind and loving enough , but Anne had to support him . Add to this the fact that all her children ...
... died her enemy . Her brother - in - law Wil- liam , as King , had never treated her well and too often treated her badly . Her husband was kind and loving enough , but Anne had to support him . Add to this the fact that all her children ...
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... died in infancy , and George II another . The Prince , as a result , was banished the court and took up hostile resi- dence with his wife in Leicester Fields . There migrated all the politically disaffected as well as most of the youth ...
... died in infancy , and George II another . The Prince , as a result , was banished the court and took up hostile resi- dence with his wife in Leicester Fields . There migrated all the politically disaffected as well as most of the youth ...
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... died , and Hetty took up with Piozzi , her daughters ' music - master , whom once at Dr Burney's she had cruelly ... died . At her death the Prince of Wales ex- claimed : " We have lost the best - bred woman in England " ; and Charles ...
... died , and Hetty took up with Piozzi , her daughters ' music - master , whom once at Dr Burney's she had cruelly ... died . At her death the Prince of Wales ex- claimed : " We have lost the best - bred woman in England " ; and Charles ...
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