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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... true of himself , or what would have been true in the circumstances , or what was generally true of their kind . Psychology with him seldom went farther than to ask himself what it would be sensible for the average thief or pirate or ...
... true of himself , or what would have been true in the circumstances , or what was generally true of their kind . Psychology with him seldom went farther than to ask himself what it would be sensible for the average thief or pirate or ...
Sivu 236
... true of George IV's Mrs Fitzherbert's house at Brighton must have been true of countless others : it contained an ale cellar , a small - beer cellar , a wine - in - casks cellar , and a wine - in - bottles cellar . By modern standards ...
... true of George IV's Mrs Fitzherbert's house at Brighton must have been true of countless others : it contained an ale cellar , a small - beer cellar , a wine - in - casks cellar , and a wine - in - bottles cellar . By modern standards ...
Sivu 282
... true sense of decency , and a conception of human goodness that has nothing to do with creeds or conventions . But though he is masterly in ferreting out shams , his actual delineation of true worth seems com- monplace . Squire ...
... true sense of decency , and a conception of human goodness that has nothing to do with creeds or conventions . But though he is masterly in ferreting out shams , his actual delineation of true worth seems com- monplace . Squire ...
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Addison Anne Anne's aristocratic Augustan Bath became Beggar's Opera better Bolingbroke brilliant Burke century character Charles Charles Fox Chesterfield Church coffee-houses comedy court cynical Defoe Dr Johnson drink Duchess Duchess of Marlborough Duke eighteenth eighteenth-century England English Fanny Burney fashion feeling France French French Revolution friends gambling Garrick genius George George III George Selwyn Hanover Harley Hogarth Horace Walpole House House of Hanover King knew lacked Lady Mary later less lived London Lord Marlborough matter ment merely middle-class mind Mme du Deffand moral never once opera Oxford painting Parliament party peace perhaps Pitt play political poor Pope prison Queen reason reign Revolution Sarah sense sentiment Shelburne Sheridan social society sought Squire Swift taste theatre things throne tion Tories true turned virtue Walpole's wanted Wesley Whigs Wilkes woman women writers wrote young