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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... young men marriage was something to avoid and oppose . To these not too distant heirs of Restoration profligacy who revelled in their fun , there was nothing at all wel- come in the thought of settling down . Fathers had to go to a good ...
... young men marriage was something to avoid and oppose . To these not too distant heirs of Restoration profligacy who revelled in their fun , there was nothing at all wel- come in the thought of settling down . Fathers had to go to a good ...
Sivu 164
... young gentlemen might go to amuse themselves ; and the Church , whose object might once have been to obstruct depravity , was satisfied now to obstruct progress . Thus to the stodgy clerical traditions of the dons was added the ...
... young gentlemen might go to amuse themselves ; and the Church , whose object might once have been to obstruct depravity , was satisfied now to obstruct progress . Thus to the stodgy clerical traditions of the dons was added the ...
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... young men were under no academic orders to study , they had no worldly incentive either . So long as they acquired ... young lords , though they sometimes ate what the young lords had left on their plates . Nor did they pitch upon ...
... young men were under no academic orders to study , they had no worldly incentive either . So long as they acquired ... young lords , though they sometimes ate what the young lords had left on their plates . Nor did they pitch upon ...
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