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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... tion . To the average Englishman of 1710 , the throne of Spain meant much less than the throne of England ; and when he remembered that written covenants had not prevented Philip from seizing a Spanish crown , he might suspect that Acts ...
... tion . To the average Englishman of 1710 , the throne of Spain meant much less than the throne of England ; and when he remembered that written covenants had not prevented Philip from seizing a Spanish crown , he might suspect that Acts ...
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... tion and loyalty for Marlborough , offering - though they shared different attitudes toward the war - his co - opera- tion , Bolingbroke , when the time came to strike , so far from being merciful , was unjust . Long before he openly ...
... tion and loyalty for Marlborough , offering - though they shared different attitudes toward the war - his co - opera- tion , Bolingbroke , when the time came to strike , so far from being merciful , was unjust . Long before he openly ...
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... tion . Crabbe's father took in The Philosophical Magazine ; a tailor's widow boasted of having read Milton ; Turner himself constantly read good books . It is easy to see how , where feudal conceptions had long given country people ...
... tion . Crabbe's father took in The Philosophical Magazine ; a tailor's widow boasted of having read Milton ; Turner himself constantly read good books . It is easy to see how , where feudal conceptions had long given country people ...
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