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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... turned on her in anger , saying : " My first wife was a Percy , and she never dared to take such a liberty . " We may rejoice that when Somerset was seeking a third wife the widowed Sarah Marlborough turned him down . Sarah stands ...
... turned on her in anger , saying : " My first wife was a Percy , and she never dared to take such a liberty . " We may rejoice that when Somerset was seeking a third wife the widowed Sarah Marlborough turned him down . Sarah stands ...
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... turned to a young man not yet twenty - five , whom already two years earlier he had turned to without success , and asked him to take over the gov- ernment . This time Chatham's son assented . And with everything against him at the ...
... turned to a young man not yet twenty - five , whom already two years earlier he had turned to without success , and asked him to take over the gov- ernment . This time Chatham's son assented . And with everything against him at the ...
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... turned out to be its eloquence , belongs to neither , but to Sheridan and Burke . But Fox , wherever possible , opposed Pitt ; and in the matter of the Regency Bill , when the King went temporarily insane , Fox opposed him with loss of ...
... turned out to be its eloquence , belongs to neither , but to Sheridan and Burke . But Fox , wherever possible , opposed Pitt ; and in the matter of the Regency Bill , when the King went temporarily insane , Fox opposed him with loss of ...
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