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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... finally thrown to him - an Irish deanery - was thrown much later , and not by the Whigs but by the Tories . It was little enough reward , when it came , for the magnifi- cent services Swift rendered the Tory Party as pamphleteer . In ...
... finally thrown to him - an Irish deanery - was thrown much later , and not by the Whigs but by the Tories . It was little enough reward , when it came , for the magnifi- cent services Swift rendered the Tory Party as pamphleteer . In ...
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... finally he turned his pockets inside out and thrust into the plate all his coppers and silver and gold . Even Chester- field , prince of cynics , succumbed to his spell . Whitefield was picturing a sinner as a blind old man tottering ...
... finally he turned his pockets inside out and thrust into the plate all his coppers and silver and gold . Even Chester- field , prince of cynics , succumbed to his spell . Whitefield was picturing a sinner as a blind old man tottering ...
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... finally won out over the English ; Pitt finally won out over George III . Lord North was even finally allowed to resign . But no king had as fully ruled England since William III , if even he had ; and in consequence , no king was ...
... finally won out over the English ; Pitt finally won out over George III . Lord North was even finally allowed to resign . But no king had as fully ruled England since William III , if even he had ; and in consequence , no king was ...
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