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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Life in Eighteenth Century England Louis Kronenberger. CHAPTER VII THE POOR THE annals of the eighteenth - century poor are short enough ; no doubt to their more fortunate contemporaries they seemed simple also . Of the virtuous poor ...
Life in Eighteenth Century England Louis Kronenberger. CHAPTER VII THE POOR THE annals of the eighteenth - century poor are short enough ; no doubt to their more fortunate contemporaries they seemed simple also . Of the virtuous poor ...
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... century was a city which , freed of compulsions , more truly possessed style : a city where Herschel , while discovering Uranus in his spare time , conducted the band ; where Mrs Siddons acted ; where Gainsborough became the rage ...
... century was a city which , freed of compulsions , more truly possessed style : a city where Herschel , while discovering Uranus in his spare time , conducted the band ; where Mrs Siddons acted ; where Gainsborough became the rage ...
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... century , and as the century advanced , it grew worse . Romilly , who strove to improve it and finally , early in the next century , succeeded , wrote in 1786 : " Among the vari- ety of actions which men are daily liable to commit , no ...
... century , and as the century advanced , it grew worse . Romilly , who strove to improve it and finally , early in the next century , succeeded , wrote in 1786 : " Among the vari- ety of actions which men are daily liable to commit , no ...
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