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 54
... boy is now undressing by me , ” wrote another , “ and is such pretty company that he hinders me so I can- not write what I would . " Education began early . Life was too uncertain to prolong child- hood unnecessarily ; the sooner boys ...
... boy is now undressing by me , ” wrote another , “ and is such pretty company that he hinders me so I can- not write what I would . " Education began early . Life was too uncertain to prolong child- hood unnecessarily ; the sooner boys ...
Page 239
... boys blow ! And see the girls all dressed so pretty , Blow ! boys , blow ! " Such men , by modern standards , lived lives of almost indescribable hardship , spending years afloat before they set foot on shore and , cleaned out by a ...
... boys blow ! And see the girls all dressed so pretty , Blow ! boys , blow ! " Such men , by modern standards , lived lives of almost indescribable hardship , spending years afloat before they set foot on shore and , cleaned out by a ...
Page 272
... boys running off to hide and little girls running out to peep . Often the children would mount in yearly steps from the baby at the breast to the grown youth of nineteen . Around that holy of holies centred a life of the strictest ...
... boys running off to hide and little girls running out to peep . Often the children would mount in yearly steps from the baby at the breast to the grown youth of nineteen . Around that holy of holies centred a life of the strictest ...
Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 1 2000 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
Copyright | |
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