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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... feeling does not matter ; the point was that he exposed himself at a time when the memory of Cromwell was still alarmingly vivid - to the imputation of the military dictatorship . It was a shocking blunder . The third event , involving ...
... feeling does not matter ; the point was that he exposed himself at a time when the memory of Cromwell was still alarmingly vivid - to the imputation of the military dictatorship . It was a shocking blunder . The third event , involving ...
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... feeling for art , so circumstances granted him no share in its spoils . In point of fortune , his practicality served him less well than a feeling for culture served Addison or Prior or Pope . Defoe was still a hack when late in life he ...
... feeling for art , so circumstances granted him no share in its spoils . In point of fortune , his practicality served him less well than a feeling for culture served Addison or Prior or Pope . Defoe was still a hack when late in life he ...
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... feeling , but that he misapplied it ; not that he consciously sought to perpetuate injustice , but that , caught in the meshes of his own conception of progress , he rejected any other . He " held fast to the doc- trine that everything ...
... feeling , but that he misapplied it ; not that he consciously sought to perpetuate injustice , but that , caught in the meshes of his own conception of progress , he rejected any other . He " held fast to the doc- trine that everything ...
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