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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... Walpole we en- counter no hint of men who fight for dimly apprehended causes or from loving the heat of battle or preening themselves on their lancemanship . Walpole fought - fought leoninely - but for a purpose . He was determined to ...
... Walpole we en- counter no hint of men who fight for dimly apprehended causes or from loving the heat of battle or preening themselves on their lancemanship . Walpole fought - fought leoninely - but for a purpose . He was determined to ...
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... Walpole that he long urged peace at the sure risk of acquiring unpopularity and encountering royal disfavour — which is not the usual pro- cedure of the opportunist . As to his policy in general , it is as untrue to say that Walpole ...
... Walpole that he long urged peace at the sure risk of acquiring unpopularity and encountering royal disfavour — which is not the usual pro- cedure of the opportunist . As to his policy in general , it is as untrue to say that Walpole ...
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... Walpole's day it was gobbling up trade , was soon to exploit the vaster resources of the Industrial Revo- lution . Walpole's merit is that he made England prosper ; his vice , that he made England value prosperity too much . And ...
... Walpole's day it was gobbling up trade , was soon to exploit the vaster resources of the Industrial Revo- lution . Walpole's merit is that he made England prosper ; his vice , that he made England value prosperity too much . And ...
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Addison Anne Anne's aristocratic Augustan Bath became Beggar's Opera better Bolingbroke brilliant Burke century character Charles Charles Fox Chesterfield Church coffee-houses comedy court cynical Defoe Dr Johnson drink Duchess Duchess of Marlborough Duke eighteenth eighteenth-century England English Fanny Burney fashion feeling France French French Revolution friends gambling Garrick genius George George III George Selwyn Hanover Harley Hogarth Horace Walpole House House of Hanover King knew lacked Lady Mary later less lived London Lord Marlborough matter ment merely middle-class mind Mme du Deffand moral never once opera Oxford painting Parliament party peace perhaps Pitt play political poor Pope prison Queen reason reign Revolution Sarah sense sentiment Shelburne Sheridan social society sought Squire Swift taste theatre things throne tion Tories true turned virtue Walpole's wanted Wesley Whigs Wilkes woman women writers wrote young