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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... sought to be prime minister under Anne ; he had sought again under George I and George II ; and now he had designs of captivating the Prince of Wales , son of George II - who , as it happened , died before his father did . Bolingbroke's ...
... sought to be prime minister under Anne ; he had sought again under George I and George II ; and now he had designs of captivating the Prince of Wales , son of George II - who , as it happened , died before his father did . Bolingbroke's ...
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... sought to make himself out a roué . Boling- broke , the greatest statesman under Anne , frankly sought to out - Rochester the greatest debauchee under Charles II ; and Walpole , the greatest statesman under the first two Georges , lived ...
... sought to make himself out a roué . Boling- broke , the greatest statesman under Anne , frankly sought to out - Rochester the greatest debauchee under Charles II ; and Walpole , the greatest statesman under the first two Georges , lived ...
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... sought , sought very carefully , to keep up appearances . He never lost his temper ; there could have been no better way for making other people lose theirs . He never quarrelled ; but Swift , Steele , and Pope all contrived to have ...
... sought , sought very carefully , to keep up appearances . He never lost his temper ; there could have been no better way for making other people lose theirs . He never quarrelled ; but Swift , Steele , and Pope all contrived to have ...
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