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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... perhaps the greatest talker of the age , sober was no talker at all . Indeed , it was on wine and brandy that much of the nation's charm was exerted , its wit turned loose , its politics transacted , and its business performed . Yet the ...
... perhaps the greatest talker of the age , sober was no talker at all . Indeed , it was on wine and brandy that much of the nation's charm was exerted , its wit turned loose , its politics transacted , and its business performed . Yet the ...
Sivu 67
... perhaps ten or a dozen of them , and you parted with two or three guineas with whatever grace you could muster . A poor country clergyman dining with his bishop might have to give up the best part of a week's income ; a poor poet dining ...
... perhaps ten or a dozen of them , and you parted with two or three guineas with whatever grace you could muster . A poor country clergyman dining with his bishop might have to give up the best part of a week's income ; a poor poet dining ...
Sivu 85
... perhaps the most accurate description of them is that they were oddly democratic . London amused itself , too , at freak shows and fairs . The fairs - Bartholomew Fair , Southwark Fair , May Fair - lasted anywhere from two to six weeks ...
... perhaps the most accurate description of them is that they were oddly democratic . London amused itself , too , at freak shows and fairs . The fairs - Bartholomew Fair , Southwark Fair , May Fair - lasted anywhere from two to six weeks ...
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