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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... less ability than he , but less decency and on the whole less principle . The very best of them were morally superior to him as individuals , but morally of a piece with him as administrators , and mentally not within hailing dis- tance ...
... less ability than he , but less decency and on the whole less principle . The very best of them were morally superior to him as individuals , but morally of a piece with him as administrators , and mentally not within hailing dis- tance ...
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Life in Eighteenth Century England Louis Kronenberger. less attractive was the life of most country gentlemen ; far less so , indeed , than the life of , for example , Squire West- ern . For Western had money , and the run of his kind ...
Life in Eighteenth Century England Louis Kronenberger. less attractive was the life of most country gentlemen ; far less so , indeed , than the life of , for example , Squire West- ern . For Western had money , and the run of his kind ...
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... less than we imagine . It is very wonderful that Johnson , throughout fifty years , should have gone on making comments that were invariably pointed , but less often to the point . Taken as a whole , surely they are the most dazzling ...
... less than we imagine . It is very wonderful that Johnson , throughout fifty years , should have gone on making comments that were invariably pointed , but less often to the point . Taken as a whole , surely they are the most dazzling ...
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