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… pages. Inspired by the commercial success of William Smith’s Pocket Peerage , Charles Coleman in A satirical peerage of England (1784) invented exuberant or ridiculous mottoes to mock the Lords’ social standing. Laughter and derision fitted … 13 . Donna T. Andrew, Aristocratic vice: The Attack on Duelling, Suicide, Adultery, and Gambling in Eighteenth-Century England (Yale, 2013). 14 . The Times, 12 Sept. 1831. 15 . T. Piketty, Capital and Ideology (Harvard, 2020), p. 174. Share … p. 22-35. Colclough, Stephen, ‘Pocket Books and Portable Writing: The Pocket Memorandum Book in Eighteenth-Century England and Wales’, The Yearbook of English Studies (vol. 45, 2015), p. 159-177. Goss, C. W. F. (ed.), The London …
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