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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... social aspects - because though they were born before 1789 , they flourished after . It treats the arts largely in social terms , and much less in æsthetic ones . It deals with certain important men and women , not to pro- vide much in ...
... social aspects - because though they were born before 1789 , they flourished after . It treats the arts largely in social terms , and much less in æsthetic ones . It deals with certain important men and women , not to pro- vide much in ...
Sivu 58
... social non- sense that had been practised , in Anne's reign , by Whigs and Tories . Frederick espoused the light operettas of Lin- coln's Inn Fields ; the King sat freezing over Handel at the empty Haymarket . ( So few others froze with ...
... social non- sense that had been practised , in Anne's reign , by Whigs and Tories . Frederick espoused the light operettas of Lin- coln's Inn Fields ; the King sat freezing over Handel at the empty Haymarket . ( So few others froze with ...
Sivu 302
... social causes with social conse- quences . Middle - class morality may be catching up with aristocratic vice , but vice , for the most part , means profli- gacy and godlessness , and even when it means greed or irresponsibility or ...
... social causes with social conse- quences . Middle - class morality may be catching up with aristocratic vice , but vice , for the most part , means profli- gacy and godlessness , and even when it means greed or irresponsibility or ...
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