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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... drinking - fast got under way , so that inside a generation the casual chocolate - drinkers had bowed themselves out and the gamblers had walled them- selves in . But already in Anne's day men went there to drink and gamble . It is true ...
... drinking - fast got under way , so that inside a generation the casual chocolate - drinkers had bowed themselves out and the gamblers had walled them- selves in . But already in Anne's day men went there to drink and gamble . It is true ...
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... drink ? strikes a sympathetic chord ; his good resolutions , hardly kept from one journal entry to the next , induce a smile . Surely drink was the great social in- dulgence of these provincials ; upon it apparently depended their ...
... drink ? strikes a sympathetic chord ; his good resolutions , hardly kept from one journal entry to the next , induce a smile . Surely drink was the great social in- dulgence of these provincials ; upon it apparently depended their ...
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... drink light wines , but quantities of brandy and port . A dozen - odd young bloods sat up after a ball until seven in the morning , emptying ( on top of what they had already drunk ) thirty - two bottles of wine . Dr Johnson once drank ...
... drink light wines , but quantities of brandy and port . A dozen - odd young bloods sat up after a ball until seven in the morning , emptying ( on top of what they had already drunk ) thirty - two bottles of wine . Dr Johnson once drank ...
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