The book A History of England in the Eighteenth Century was written by author Lecky, William Edward Hartpole, 1838-1903 Here you can read free online of A History of England in the Eighteenth Century book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is A History of England in the Eighteenth Century a good or bad book?
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Even before the many taxes that grew out of the war of the American Revolution a foreign ob- server noticed that an Englishman was taxed when he got up, for his soap ; at nine o'clock, for his coffee, tea, and sugar ; at noon, for the starch with which he powdered his hair ; at dinner, for his salt ; in the evening, for his porter ; all day long, for his light ; and at night, for his candles. 1 A glance over the Statute- book, or at the police reports of the eighteenth century, illus- trates cu...riously the great difference between its industrial system and our own. Thus a law of George I., passed in the interest of the silk manufacturers, prohibited anyone from wearing buttons and button-holes made of cloth or other stuff, and as late as 1796 a law was passed at the request of the makers of metal buttons prescribing the proportion of gilt, double gilt, and triple gilt buttons, and prohibiting the mixture of buttons of different qualities.* I have already cited the law which long made it penal for any woman to wear a dress made of Indian calico.
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