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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... father was justly indignant . " Sir , " wrote Lord Cork to his son , " I am informed that you are so miserably blinded as to incline to marry and so with one wretched act to dash all my designs which concern myself and house . " Few ...
... father was justly indignant . " Sir , " wrote Lord Cork to his son , " I am informed that you are so miserably blinded as to incline to marry and so with one wretched act to dash all my designs which concern myself and house . " Few ...
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... father's aid wrote to Mary Eyre : " Oh ! my most honoured dear lady , how shall I count those unkind hours that keep ... father or he himself writes to the father of the maid to know if he shall be welcome to the house . . . . If the ...
... father's aid wrote to Mary Eyre : " Oh ! my most honoured dear lady , how shall I count those unkind hours that keep ... father or he himself writes to the father of the maid to know if he shall be welcome to the house . . . . If the ...
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Arthur Bryant. bears . " His father's name before him was Chips , and his father's name before him was Chips , and they were all Chipses . " Pride in craftsmanship and skill handed down the generations were the attributes that made the ...
Arthur Bryant. bears . " His father's name before him was Chips , and his father's name before him was Chips , and they were all Chipses . " Pride in craftsmanship and skill handed down the generations were the attributes that made the ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 1 2000 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
Copyright | |
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