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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... things which had been attained than in things yet attain- able . They were possibly of that stock which innocently re- gards its own moment in history as the culmination of all progress . Thus , while struggling jealously to preserve ...
... things which had been attained than in things yet attain- able . They were possibly of that stock which innocently re- gards its own moment in history as the culmination of all progress . Thus , while struggling jealously to preserve ...
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... things he might say . Indeed , aris- tocrats like Bolingbroke , Hervey , and Lady Mary competed with the professionals in saying good things and helped cre- ate that atmosphere of wit which was never again exactly recovered . But as ...
... things he might say . Indeed , aris- tocrats like Bolingbroke , Hervey , and Lady Mary competed with the professionals in saying good things and helped cre- ate that atmosphere of wit which was never again exactly recovered . But as ...
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... things , when gentlemen scorned being thought of as writers , when warmth was no necessary part of friendship , and virtue was a word in the mouth of those who discredited it . " Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having ...
... things , when gentlemen scorned being thought of as writers , when warmth was no necessary part of friendship , and virtue was a word in the mouth of those who discredited it . " Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having ...
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