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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... politics least of all : they were violently partisan , wrote on political subjects , lived by political alliances , and frequently held political office . Should they happen to write without bias , bias was in- ferred . In 1713 ...
... politics least of all : they were violently partisan , wrote on political subjects , lived by political alliances , and frequently held political office . Should they happen to write without bias , bias was in- ferred . In 1713 ...
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... political one : the Tatlers and Spectators he wrote had wide popularity , and his Cato ran for thirty - five nights , a very long run considering the age , not to speak of the play . He made distinguished friends and , in middle age , a ...
... political one : the Tatlers and Spectators he wrote had wide popularity , and his Cato ran for thirty - five nights , a very long run considering the age , not to speak of the play . He made distinguished friends and , in middle age , a ...
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... political scandal and remains a political disgrace . During the whole of the American Revolution Fox had denounced North , his party , his policies , his principles ; had wanted to send him to the scaffold for his mismanagement of the ...
... political scandal and remains a political disgrace . During the whole of the American Revolution Fox had denounced North , his party , his policies , his principles ; had wanted to send him to the scaffold for his mismanagement of the ...
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