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Are You on the Edge of Absolutism?
The english were seen as, and certainly, your book, clare, is very much about, you know, chaotic a there was eccentricity. They think they're partly to report abt, but also to gather intelligence. E an honourable spys is a phrase that comes over from the sort of elizabethan period. It can all go wrong, aminuts. And at the timew we are taught afterwards that the parliamentary system and the arguments between pamphleters and this sort of seething national debate, that is the rout towards mad nity. But actually, at the time, that did not seem clear at all.
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