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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... followed by both pastry and pudding ; and one washed down one's food with a great deal of wine . Brandy and more wine followed . Men were accustomed to linger at table for hours , in racy or pretentious talk , to rise tipsily at length ...
... followed by both pastry and pudding ; and one washed down one's food with a great deal of wine . Brandy and more wine followed . Men were accustomed to linger at table for hours , in racy or pretentious talk , to rise tipsily at length ...
Sivu 92
... followed in the South Sea's wake . Swept off their feet by vast if vague promises of gain , men literally invested their money in anything . There were companies for making salt water fresh , for extracting silver from lead , for ...
... followed in the South Sea's wake . Swept off their feet by vast if vague promises of gain , men literally invested their money in anything . There were companies for making salt water fresh , for extracting silver from lead , for ...
Sivu 143
... followed there by another woman whose passion he trifled with to the point of killing her . He went back to write the Drapier's Letters and A Modest Proposal and Gulliver's Travels ; to pun , to exist in self - conscious ex- ile , to ...
... followed there by another woman whose passion he trifled with to the point of killing her . He went back to write the Drapier's Letters and A Modest Proposal and Gulliver's Travels ; to pun , to exist in self - conscious ex- ile , to ...
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