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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... poor . Both sovereigns were greedy men ; both were indifferent to their English subjects . An era of unequalled corruption had not only its moral , but also its economic , disasters . The South Sea Bubble , temporarily wrecking middle ...
... poor . Both sovereigns were greedy men ; both were indifferent to their English subjects . An era of unequalled corruption had not only its moral , but also its economic , disasters . The South Sea Bubble , temporarily wrecking middle ...
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... poor . As the century advanced , an increase in private philanthropy did something to mitigate the problem : five great hospitals were founded in London by 1750 , and afterwards the dispensary movement began to make headway , so that poor ...
... poor . As the century advanced , an increase in private philanthropy did something to mitigate the problem : five great hospitals were founded in London by 1750 , and afterwards the dispensary movement began to make headway , so that poor ...
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... poor ? There were , to be sure , the hospitals ; but Howard , who went on to study hospitals as he had studied jails , found them inadequate and even insanitary . Two patients ( who might be suffering from two very different diseases ) ...
... poor ? There were , to be sure , the hospitals ; but Howard , who went on to study hospitals as he had studied jails , found them inadequate and even insanitary . Two patients ( who might be suffering from two very different diseases ) ...
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