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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... followed , not been slowed down by his Dutch and Austrian brother - commanders , he would certainly have invaded France and marched on Paris . As it was , he had to content himself with expelling the French from Flanders and conquering ...
... followed , not been slowed down by his Dutch and Austrian brother - commanders , he would certainly have invaded France and marched on Paris . As it was , he had to content himself with expelling the French from Flanders and conquering ...
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... followed . Men were accustomed to linger at table for hours , in racy or pretentious talk , to rise tipsily at length for the night's activities . Women , on the other hand , frequently rose with dispatch to get down to what Sarah ...
... followed . Men were accustomed to linger at table for hours , in racy or pretentious talk , to rise tipsily at length for the night's activities . Women , on the other hand , frequently rose with dispatch to get down to what Sarah ...
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... followed . The South Sea Company , by far the greatest of these projects , roared its stock up to over a thousand per cent of par , whereupon the promoters sold out . At once the price of the stock began catastrophi- cally to fall ; the ...
... followed . The South Sea Company , by far the greatest of these projects , roared its stock up to over a thousand per cent of par , whereupon the promoters sold out . At once the price of the stock began catastrophi- cally to fall ; the ...
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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