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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... knew that she was the most important person in the kingdom . The Stuarts , like the Bourbons , had excellent memories , and an ambitious man who offended the Queen might discover , long afterwards , that he stood in high disfavour for ...
... knew that she was the most important person in the kingdom . The Stuarts , like the Bourbons , had excellent memories , and an ambitious man who offended the Queen might discover , long afterwards , that he stood in high disfavour for ...
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... knew what he wanted to be as quickly as he knew that he could be almost nothing else . He had lisped in numbers ; suc- cessively , then , he stuttered , spoke , sneered , and screamed in numbers ; numbers , from the point of view 136 ...
... knew what he wanted to be as quickly as he knew that he could be almost nothing else . He had lisped in numbers ; suc- cessively , then , he stuttered , spoke , sneered , and screamed in numbers ; numbers , from the point of view 136 ...
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... knew that the " knew that the " oppressor India would be acquitted . " of More than that one need not 8 Nor must their powers of invective be forgotten . Oratory abounded in such touches as Burke's " If Lord Shelburne is not a Catiline ...
... knew that the " knew that the " oppressor India would be acquitted . " of More than that one need not 8 Nor must their powers of invective be forgotten . Oratory abounded in such touches as Burke's " If Lord Shelburne is not a Catiline ...
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