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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... interests of their time - the bankers , the foreign traders , the City men : all those who stood to lose from a union ... interest . The Whigs were therefore the promoters of the war , and in the sentiment of the time it grew into a Whig ...
... interests of their time - the bankers , the foreign traders , the City men : all those who stood to lose from a union ... interest . The Whigs were therefore the promoters of the war , and in the sentiment of the time it grew into a Whig ...
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... interest by the same tactics with which they ruined themselves ; but something beyond Tory de- fection — namely ... interests ; it was to sink , indeed , to the level of a despotic oligarchy , the " Venetian oligarchy " of Disraeli's ...
... interest by the same tactics with which they ruined themselves ; but something beyond Tory de- fection — namely ... interests ; it was to sink , indeed , to the level of a despotic oligarchy , the " Venetian oligarchy " of Disraeli's ...
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... interest in hu- manity , in life . Reynolds , we know , painted his own portrait almost a hundred times ; how often ... interests at all equalled their gifts . Romney , it is true , forswore portrait - painting in weary disgust , but ...
... interest in hu- manity , in life . Reynolds , we know , painted his own portrait almost a hundred times ; how often ... interests at all equalled their gifts . Romney , it is true , forswore portrait - painting in weary disgust , but ...
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