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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... sullen ; obsessed by the thought of duty , but reaching decisions out of personal motives ; and consulting for the Church almost more than she did for the throne . Yet , by a kind of hare - and - [ 17 [ DETAILS OF THE PLOT ]
... sullen ; obsessed by the thought of duty , but reaching decisions out of personal motives ; and consulting for the Church almost more than she did for the throne . Yet , by a kind of hare - and - [ 17 [ DETAILS OF THE PLOT ]
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... thought than that which circulated as " religious rational- ism " inside the Church . Men were everywhere becoming ... thought to have too little religion , in England he was thought to have too much . All the same , freethinkers in ...
... thought than that which circulated as " religious rational- ism " inside the Church . Men were everywhere becoming ... thought to have too little religion , in England he was thought to have too much . All the same , freethinkers in ...
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... 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 been vice , " wrote Walpole with ...
... 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 been vice , " wrote Walpole with ...
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