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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... talk with , one could always sit quietly and eavesdrop . The policy of first come , first served provided a basis on which all classes could mingle . Noblemen engaged writers in talk ; merchants clutched at crumbs of news from ...
... talk with , one could always sit quietly and eavesdrop . The policy of first come , first served provided a basis on which all classes could mingle . Noblemen engaged writers in talk ; merchants clutched at crumbs of news from ...
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... talk were decidedly called for . Even a harebrained gadabout might have a true turn for phrase ; and though women in comedies of the period talked with very short breath , and tergiversated badly , and pecked at one topic and darted ...
... talk were decidedly called for . Even a harebrained gadabout might have a true turn for phrase ; and though women in comedies of the period talked with very short breath , and tergiversated badly , and pecked at one topic and darted ...
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... talk in which the high - born shared ; the age of George III , though it possessed the greatest of all talkers - and this means Burke as well as Johnson - was nothing better , in the polite world , than an age of badinage . The society ...
... talk in which the high - born shared ; the age of George III , though it possessed the greatest of all talkers - and this means Burke as well as Johnson - was nothing better , in the polite world , than an age of badinage . The society ...
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