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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... virtue was unsullied , talked filth by the hour with Walpole . There was little , too , that young ladies did not know . To illustrate what society was then like and what it afterwards became , we may use once more Sir Walter Scott's ...
... virtue was unsullied , talked filth by the hour with Walpole . There was little , too , that young ladies did not know . To illustrate what society was then like and what it afterwards became , we may use once more Sir Walter Scott's ...
Sivu 114
... virtue as time out of mind have made virtuousness seem a little . . . well , improbable . They are quite without real vision ; it never seems to occur to them that there may be a larger , wiser , better world than their own . They had ...
... virtue as time out of mind have made virtuousness seem a little . . . well , improbable . They are quite without real vision ; it never seems to occur to them that there may be a larger , wiser , better world than their own . They had ...
Sivu 137
... virtue should have any credit in the world ; the sum of all his experience is that wisdom and virtue barely exist . He might exempt from his harsh indictment an Esther Johnson or an Arbuthnot or — of all people ! —a Harley ; but of what ...
... virtue should have any credit in the world ; the sum of all his experience is that wisdom and virtue barely exist . He might exempt from his harsh indictment an Esther Johnson or an Arbuthnot or — of all people ! —a Harley ; but of what ...
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