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    your eyes met with beautiful emerald eyes, with bushy eyebrows. and a short mop of dirty blonde hair. To say he was unattractive would be a lie."You got tea?" "um yeah we have tea" You said looking down at the table which you were washing "good, earl gray please" He says sitting down at the table you just washed and opened up a book

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    scooped the loose tea into the pot, gives way to the steadiness needed to poor the boiling water. She returns the kettle to the stove and tells me we are three minutes away from the perfect cup of Earl Gray. Eva tells me about the day she was introduced to the Light of Day Tea Company and their Earl Gray tea. She describes the robust flavor and creamy aftertaste. She tells how it took 89 years for her to find the perfect cup of tea; tea worthy of occupying her cup every afternoon. I find myself

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    Elizabeth invites the Sidney’s to send Mary to the court with a promise of exceptional care away from the unpleasant air of wales. Secondly, at the age of fifteen, two years later from being with the queen, she became the third wife of Henry Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, He was known as one of the richest men in England and also associated closely with her father

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    In the letter to his son, Lord Chesterfield composes a sum of lifestyle advices and and ridicule aimed to judge or change his son's present and past behavior. Some to benefit his own image and others some think sincerely were to hoped to make a difference in his illegitimate sons life. Lord Chesterfield wishes to instill into him characteristics that if and when displayed by his son would bring up his own image as a father or at least not ruin it. In the letter he discusses and reprehend his son

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    The Whigs' Lack of Political Success in the Period 1783-1815 There are a number if contributing factors, both long and short term that led to the downfall of the Whig party in the years 1783-1815. Firstly, the Whig party itself had alienated themselves from the King, George III. Unlike Pitt, whose success derived directly from the Kings favour, the Whigs had continued to express their views against royal patronage. The Whigs believed the power of the monarch should be

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    Obscenity in Rochester's Work "Rage at last confirms me impotent" (Rochester). How far is obscenity in Rochester's work motivated by disquiet with the world at large, and how successful is Rochester's ribaldry in fulfilling its satiric purpose? Rochester's poetry has been denounced by many as obscene and immoral. Samuel Johnson condemned his work and said that he lived and wrote "with an avowed contempt of decency and order, a total disregard to every moral, and a resolute denial of every

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    Justification of the Corn Laws The Corn Law was a potentially dangerous bill introduced in 1815 after three years of good harvests. It was instigated with the support of Lord Liverpool the current Prime Minister who saw the Corn Laws as a temporary measure to create stability in the agricultural sector in the immediate post-war years. The Corn Laws were potentially disastrous because they, along with the abolishment of Income tax and the creation of the Game laws,

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    of a topic that was discussed behind closed doors, yet the satirist used freely, was sex. Mention of such things as sex can always bring a giggle, excite feelings of hidden passion, or make one's cheeks rosy from embarrassment. John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, and Jonathan Swift, were two satirist that

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    Analysis of Rochester's A Satyr Against Mankind Although John Wilmot, better known as the Earl of Rochester, wrote "A Satyr Against Mankind" in 1679, his ideas are still relevant over three centuries later. His foresight in satirizing humankind's use of reason reinforces the intrinsic role of rationality in the human condition. But implicit in his condemnation of rationality is an intentional fallacy—the speaker of the poem uses reason in the same

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    Ralph Grey. He created 1st Earl of Tankerville. Ford Grey was married to Lady Mary Berkeley, daughter of George Berkeley from Berkeley family. Ford was an English nobleman and he was appointed as privy councilor in 1695 by King William III. He also became first lord of national treasury. But he was attracted to his sister in law Lady Henrietta Berkeley and seduced him. Ford Grey and Lady Henrietta Berkeley left Chillingham left abandoned Lady Mary Berkeley and his two daughters. Ford Grey later arrested

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