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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... perhaps the fin- est type of public man in the reign of Anne , was indicted for bigamy . There was hardly a man in public life whom the stress of political malice did not succeed in embarrassing by scandal ; and as all the great men in ...
... perhaps the fin- est type of public man in the reign of Anne , was indicted for bigamy . There was hardly a man in public life whom the stress of political malice did not succeed in embarrassing by scandal ; and as all the great men in ...
Sivu 148
... perhaps possible to say of his brain that , even in his prime , it was the brain of a madman . Neither his extraordinary sanity in public affairs nor the very strictness of his logic gainsays this . For they have often a madman's logic ...
... perhaps possible to say of his brain that , even in his prime , it was the brain of a madman . Neither his extraordinary sanity in public affairs nor the very strictness of his logic gainsays this . For they have often a madman's logic ...
Sivu 294
... perhaps the most celebrated philo- sophical work of the century , but there was no way for the publisher to know it would , and he actually lost five hun- dred pounds by publishing it . Sometimes the author himself was in fault ...
... perhaps the most celebrated philo- sophical work of the century , but there was no way for the publisher to know it would , and he actually lost five hun- dred pounds by publishing it . Sometimes the author himself was in fault ...
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