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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... knew that she was the most important person in the kingdom . The Stuarts , like the Bourbons , had excellent memories , and an ambitious man who offended the Queen might discover , long afterwards , that he stood in high dis- favour for ...
... knew that she was the most important person in the kingdom . The Stuarts , like the Bourbons , had excellent memories , and an ambitious man who offended the Queen might discover , long afterwards , that he stood in high dis- favour for ...
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... knew what he wanted to be as quickly as he knew that he could be almost nothing else . He had lisped in numbers ; successively , then , he stuttered , spoke , sneered , and screamed in numbers ; numbers , from the point of view of a ...
... knew what he wanted to be as quickly as he knew that he could be almost nothing else . He had lisped in numbers ; successively , then , he stuttered , spoke , sneered , and screamed in numbers ; numbers , from the point of view of a ...
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... knew the price of everything and the value of nothing ; but it is going , certainly , in the right direction . He most detested the English workingman because he was not thrifty ! And yet , deep down , he knew how tame and dull and safe ...
... knew the price of everything and the value of nothing ; but it is going , certainly , in the right direction . He most detested the English workingman because he was not thrifty ! And yet , deep down , he knew how tame and dull and safe ...
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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