Eighteenth-century London LifeJ. Murray, 1937 - 385 pages |
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... century . In the matter of water London was fairly well provided . As early as the tenth century water had been brought to the town in pipes . In the eighteenth century it was laid on to all the better houses , and there was not a court ...
... century . In the matter of water London was fairly well provided . As early as the tenth century water had been brought to the town in pipes . In the eighteenth century it was laid on to all the better houses , and there was not a court ...
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Rosamond Bayne-Powell. A EDUCATION s compared with the century which preceded , and that which followed it , the eighteenth century cannot be termed well educated . It had its scholars , no doubt , its Parrs , Bentleys and Porsons ; but ...
Rosamond Bayne-Powell. A EDUCATION s compared with the century which preceded , and that which followed it , the eighteenth century cannot be termed well educated . It had its scholars , no doubt , its Parrs , Bentleys and Porsons ; but ...
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... eighteenth- century literature would be impossible , and quite out of T place in a book of this description . We can only touch upon its chief characteristics , and judge , if we can , how it was affected by the life of eighteenth ...
... eighteenth- century literature would be impossible , and quite out of T place in a book of this description . We can only touch upon its chief characteristics , and judge , if we can , how it was affected by the life of eighteenth ...
Contents
LONDONS ASPECTS AND CHARACTERISTICS | 8 |
MEANS OF COMMUNICATION | 26 |
THE LIFE OF THE UPPER CLASSES | 40 |
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