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 110
... eyes . It was not , Paley wrote , by what the Lord Mayor felt in his coach that the public was served , but by what the apprentice felt who gazed on it . Though by 1815 all this pageantry was beginning to wear a little thin , and ...
... eyes . It was not , Paley wrote , by what the Lord Mayor felt in his coach that the public was served , but by what the apprentice felt who gazed on it . Though by 1815 all this pageantry was beginning to wear a little thin , and ...
Page 181
Arthur Bryant. with every eye upon them down Bond Street , St. James's or Pall Mall ; their exquisite French dinners ... eyes of flame twinkling in the darkness . As with a sudden flurry of horses each drew up at its destination , the ...
Arthur Bryant. with every eye upon them down Bond Street , St. James's or Pall Mall ; their exquisite French dinners ... eyes of flame twinkling in the darkness . As with a sudden flurry of horses each drew up at its destination , the ...
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... eyes or pushed comfortably to the back of their heads while papers and blue books were strewn idly on the floor before them . When , as often happened , the course of debate flowed languidly , many would stretch themselves out on the ...
... eyes or pushed comfortably to the back of their heads while papers and blue books were strewn idly on the floor before them . When , as often happened , the course of debate flowed languidly , many would stretch themselves out on the ...
Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 1 2000 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
Copyright | |
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