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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Page 137
... become farms like moated Parham in Suffolk and Boston Hall in the fens , their rafters exposed , the gild- ing ... becoming objects of new interest ; the house - party in Mansfield Park made an expedition to view the beauties of ...
... become farms like moated Parham in Suffolk and Boston Hall in the fens , their rafters exposed , the gild- ing ... becoming objects of new interest ; the house - party in Mansfield Park made an expedition to view the beauties of ...
Page 179
... become almost too rich for reason . Lord Alvanley , whose dinners were said to be the best in London , had an apricot tart on his table every day of the year and , when his maître d'hôtel expostulated at the expense , sent him to ...
... become almost too rich for reason . Lord Alvanley , whose dinners were said to be the best in London , had an apricot tart on his table every day of the year and , when his maître d'hôtel expostulated at the expense , sent him to ...
Page 195
... becoming instead the property and prestige which those virtues had created . Nor were the qualities which made for ... become a charge on the poor rates , he could be forcibly removed to the parish of his birth or “ settlement . " Even ...
... becoming instead the property and prestige which those virtues had created . Nor were the qualities which made for ... become a charge on the poor rates , he could be forcibly removed to the parish of his birth or “ settlement . " Even ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 1 2000 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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