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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... Pitt . Over many enlightened measures of Pitt's early years- parliamentary reform , abolition of the slave trade , Catholic emancipation - Fox , it should be emphasized , worked with Pitt ; for both men in those days were servants of ...
... Pitt . Over many enlightened measures of Pitt's early years- parliamentary reform , abolition of the slave trade , Catholic emancipation - Fox , it should be emphasized , worked with Pitt ; for both men in those days were servants of ...
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... Pitt , still not twenty - five , formed an administration . Most people gave it a month ; it lasted for seventeen years . By the time Pitt assumed office he had broken with the Foxite Whigs and become alienated from Fox himself . Two ...
... Pitt , still not twenty - five , formed an administration . Most people gave it a month ; it lasted for seventeen years . By the time Pitt assumed office he had broken with the Foxite Whigs and become alienated from Fox himself . Two ...
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... Pitt sounded a retreat ; progress was sacrificed to Pitt's conception of duty . It does not matter much whether Pitt , in his heart , was a genuine reactionary , for he was always an administrator , and an administrator seeks to ...
... Pitt sounded a retreat ; progress was sacrificed to Pitt's conception of duty . It does not matter much whether Pitt , in his heart , was a genuine reactionary , for he was always an administrator , and an administrator seeks to ...
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