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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... hand in hand with this whole- sale nepotism went corruption on straight political lines , all the way from direct bribery up ( I suppose one says ) to pocket boroughs . Such abuses were to grow and grow until 2 1 Cf. Lecky : A History ...
... hand in hand with this whole- sale nepotism went corruption on straight political lines , all the way from direct bribery up ( I suppose one says ) to pocket boroughs . Such abuses were to grow and grow until 2 1 Cf. Lecky : A History ...
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... hand at hoaxes , burned off the nation's flesh with its acid comments , and toyed communally with the first vague outlines of what afterwards , under one hand , became Gulliver's Travels . But it was rather in fashionable St James's ...
... hand at hoaxes , burned off the nation's flesh with its acid comments , and toyed communally with the first vague outlines of what afterwards , under one hand , became Gulliver's Travels . But it was rather in fashionable St James's ...
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... hand - me - downs , long after they had served their proper purpose . The age survives , apart from its memories of Garrick , in Goldsmith and Sheridan . Their comedies , indeed , are the only ones that made any contribution to the ...
... hand - me - downs , long after they had served their proper purpose . The age survives , apart from its memories of Garrick , in Goldsmith and Sheridan . Their comedies , indeed , are the only ones that made any contribution to the ...
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