epub |eng | 2021-05-27 | Author:Davies, Norman [Davies, Norman]

One imagines George Augustus, baffled by the verbiage, longing for the conclusion, as if waiting for the verb at the end of a prolix German sentence. Occasionally, proceedings could be ...

pdf | | 2018-01-17 | Author:Margot Finn and Kate Smith

epub |eng | 2010-09-09 | Author:Patricia Wentworth [Wentworth, Patricia]

CHAPTER XVII DISTRESSING NEWS DANGEAU ENTERED PARIS NEXT MORNING. His mission had dragged itself out to an interminable length. Even now he returned alone, his colleague, Bonnet, having been ordered ...

pdf | | 2023-12-22 | Author:Matthew Richardson

epub |eng | 2023-09-11 | Author:Eliana Piers [Piers, Eliana]

“So?” “Right. Yes. Well, you mean for me or for all men?” He was stalling. He already knew his answer, but he did not want to share it. Was there ...

epub |eng | 2024-01-18 | Author:Markland, Anna

The Graham family’s ride home was uncomfortable. The carriage wasn’t designed for four adults, particularly when two of them were broad-shouldered, long-legged men like Piper’s father and grandfather. However, it ...

epub |eng | 2024-01-08 | Author:Samantha Holt [Holt, Samantha]

Chapter Ten “We need to discuss Leo.” Adam paused in the doorway to the study and smirked. “And whatever is happening here it seems.” He gestured broadly at the desk ...

epub |eng | 2021-09-30 | Author:Catherine Curzon [Curzon, Catherine]

After George “[George I] was rather a good sort of man than a shining king,” wrote Horace Walpole in his Reminiscences, “And, as the duchess [sic] of Kendal was no ...

epub |eng | 2019-08-15 | Author:Upton, Chris;

1Archives and Collections, Library of Birmingham. CP B/286011 Birmingham Town Book, 7 August 1734. 2Archives and Collections, Library of Birmingham. CP B/380973 Accounts of the Birmingham Workhouse and Record of ...

epub |eng | 2016-08-30 | Author:Curzon, Catherine;

The Wanton Widow In her lifetime, Augusta of Saxe-Gotha was many things to many people. She was the shy, teenage Princess of Wales, a loving wife, the mother of a ...

pdf |en | | Author: Benjamin Franklin

epub |eng | | Author:Catherine Curzon

JOIN THE CLUB ‘[The] requisites for a Statesman were few and insignificant indeed; that it was the only business which needed no apprenticeship, no study, no training; that it was ...

epub |eng | 2022-06-15 | Author:David Richardson

NINE Finding “a Pathway for the Humanities” The Politics of Slave Trade Abolition, 1791–1807 IN HIS Address to the People of Great Britain, on the Propriety of Refraining from the ...

epub |eng | 2017-11-29 | Author:Joanne Major

Chapter Eight The Royal Jubilee Now that Charlotte had a little income from the rents of the property she had inherited as well as from her annuities, she could exercise ...

epub |eng | | Author:John Shovlin

3. The Caribbean in the 1760s The free ports represented only part of a much more ambitious programme of commercial reform. The most expansive vision was that of John Huske ...