Set in a Silver SeaDoubleday, 1968 - 359 pages A social history of England from the days of the first Stuart king, James, when England was largely an agricultural and rural country, through the reign of Queen Victoria, when England had become the world's foremost industrial and Imperial giant. |
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... English , two million Scots and half a million Welsh , and a subordinate one inhabited by five million Catholic ... English and the thrifty , tenacious Scots . The difference was partly one of climate , partly of religion , economics and ...
... English , two million Scots and half a million Welsh , and a subordinate one inhabited by five million Catholic ... English and the thrifty , tenacious Scots . The difference was partly one of climate , partly of religion , economics and ...
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... English , normally so suspicious of authority , showed themselves astonishingly amenable . At the Beefsteak Club , where even royal dukes served their turn as " boots , " members were sworn in with the words , " You shall attend duly ...
... English , normally so suspicious of authority , showed themselves astonishingly amenable . At the Beefsteak Club , where even royal dukes served their turn as " boots , " members were sworn in with the words , " You shall attend duly ...
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... English Spy . " B. Blackmantle " . The English Spy ( 1907 ed . ) . Ernle . Lord Ernle , English Farming Past and Present . 1912 . Espriella . R. Southey , Letters from England by Don Manuel Alvarez Espriella . 1807 . Evelyn . John ...
... English Spy . " B. Blackmantle " . The English Spy ( 1907 ed . ) . Ernle . Lord Ernle , English Farming Past and Present . 1912 . Espriella . R. Southey , Letters from England by Don Manuel Alvarez Espriella . 1807 . Evelyn . John ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 1 2000 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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