CHAPTER XXIV

. GREAT BRITAIN.--HISTORY FROM THE COMMONWEALTH TO THE

PRESENT DAY.

Puritans.--Results of Asceticism.--Excesses of the Restoration.--General Licentiousness.--Art.--Literature.--The Stage.--Nell Gwynne.--Nationality in Vice.--Sabbath at Court.--James II.--Literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth Centuries.--Lord Chesterfield.--House of Hanover.--Royal Princes.--George III.--George IV.--Influence of French Literature.--Marriage Laws.--Increase of Population. 298

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