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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... later . It had once been set at noon , but by 1700 was more likely to be two or three o'clock , and ten years later Steele puts it , in the Spectator , at four . Formal dinners were long and wearisomely elaborate , but a plain one ...
... later . It had once been set at noon , but by 1700 was more likely to be two or three o'clock , and ten years later Steele puts it , in the Spectator , at four . Formal dinners were long and wearisomely elaborate , but a plain one ...
Sivu 83
... later on an irregular but solid education of life . As a young woman she fell in love with Edward Wort- ley ( the Montagu came later ) , who most unwillingly re- ciprocated her feelings . He was as amazed by her schoolgirl erudition as ...
... later on an irregular but solid education of life . As a young woman she fell in love with Edward Wort- ley ( the Montagu came later ) , who most unwillingly re- ciprocated her feelings . He was as amazed by her schoolgirl erudition as ...
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... later the worldling turns away , and his most characteristic self comes out amid the curiosities of Strawberry Hill . He doted on his Gothic abortion , with its piecrust battlements , its manufac- tured gloom , and its complete ...
... later the worldling turns away , and his most characteristic self comes out amid the curiosities of Strawberry Hill . He doted on his Gothic abortion , with its piecrust battlements , its manufac- tured gloom , and its complete ...
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