Kings and Desperate Men: Life in Eighteenth Century EnglandVintage Books, 1942 - 298 sivua Life in eighteenth century England in the time of the French Revolution. |
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... England . His belief in bold , aggres- sive campaigns as opposed to the defensive fabian warfare of his day ; his large daring conceptions which , should they fail , meant not merely defeat , but annihilation ; his desire to prostrate ...
... England . His belief in bold , aggres- sive campaigns as opposed to the defensive fabian warfare of his day ; his large daring conceptions which , should they fail , meant not merely defeat , but annihilation ; his desire to prostrate ...
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... England's favourite painters came from abroad . But her taste in foreigners did nothing to mitigate the stigma of having no good painters of her own . In times past she had imported such men as Holbein , Van Dyck , Rubens , and Lely ...
... England's favourite painters came from abroad . But her taste in foreigners did nothing to mitigate the stigma of having no good painters of her own . In times past she had imported such men as Holbein , Van Dyck , Rubens , and Lely ...
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... England's risks and diminished her hopes , for France - helping the Americans in order to hurt the British - also went to war against England ; Spain followed France , and Holland , Spain . Thereafter the war became ever more disastrous ...
... England's risks and diminished her hopes , for France - helping the Americans in order to hurt the British - also went to war against England ; Spain followed France , and Holland , Spain . Thereafter the war became ever more disastrous ...
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