Set in a Silver SeaA 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
Many of these older houses had fallen into decay or become farms like moated Parham in Suffolk and Boston Hall in the ... for romantic antiquities those that were still lived in by their owners were surprisingly becoming objects of new ...
Many of these older houses had fallen into decay or become farms like moated Parham in Suffolk and Boston Hall in the ... for romantic antiquities those that were still lived in by their owners were surprisingly becoming objects of new ...
Page 179
The rich had 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 ...
The rich had 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 ...
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But the end of life was imperceptibly ceasing to be the pursuit of those virtues and was becoming instead the property and ... If the local justices feared he might become a charge on the poor rates , he could be forcibly removed to the ...
But the end of life was imperceptibly ceasing to be the pursuit of those virtues and was becoming instead the property and ... If the local justices feared he might become a charge on the poor rates , he could be forcibly removed to the ...
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Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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