Catherine : a Story. Little Travels. the Fitz-Boodle Papers Etc. Etc.
by Thackeray, William Makepeace
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- Paperback
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0543721949
- ISBN 13
- 9780543721945
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At that famous period of history, when the seventeenth century (after a deal of quarrelling, king-killing, reforming, republicanising, restoring, re-restoring, play-writing, sermon- writing, Oliver-Cromwellising, Stuartising, and Orangising, to be sure) had sunk into its grave, giving place to the lusty eighteenth; when Mr. Isaac Newton was a tutor of Trinity, and Mr. Joseph Addison Commissioner of Appeals; when the presiding genius that watched over the destinies of the French nation had played out all the best cards in his hand, and his adversaries began to pour in their trumps; when there were two kings in Spain employed perpetually in running away from one another; when there was a queen in England, with such rogues for Ministers as have never been seen, no, not in our own day; and a General, of whom it may be severely argued, whether he was the meanest miser or the greatest hero in the world; when Mrs.
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- Mahler Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 072116-576-103u
- Title
- Catherine : a Story. Little Travels. the Fitz-Boodle Papers Etc. Etc.
- Author
- Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0543721949
- ISBN 13
- 9780543721945
- Publisher
- Adamant Media Corporation
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- 0543721949
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