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
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