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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... lived close to the City gates , with mansions around Covent Garden or in the Strand , or with comfortable quarters over their shops and offices . The movement was only then afoot to spread fashionably westward . In the course of half a ...
... lived close to the City gates , with mansions around Covent Garden or in the Strand , or with comfortable quarters over their shops and offices . The movement was only then afoot to spread fashionably westward . In the course of half a ...
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... lived in an age when that temperament received thoughtful han- dling , and was saved by other men's courtesy from excesses and malformations . Pope lived in an age of high language and low sensibilities and , though certainly not more ...
... lived in an age when that temperament received thoughtful han- dling , and was saved by other men's courtesy from excesses and malformations . Pope lived in an age of high language and low sensibilities and , though certainly not more ...
Sivu 161
... lived rooted as his father had done . Traditions reaching back to pagan times , merged with centuries - old traditions of the Church , still dictated the tenor of life . You lived wherever it was that you farmed , or fished , or wove ...
... lived rooted as his father had done . Traditions reaching back to pagan times , merged with centuries - old traditions of the Church , still dictated the tenor of life . You lived wherever it was that you farmed , or fished , or wove ...
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