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 75
... gave the controlling direction of the kingdom to the greater owners of land . Wiser than the Stuarts they had overthrown , they exercised power by shunning its outward forms . They governed in the king's name and legislated through an ...
... gave the controlling direction of the kingdom to the greater owners of land . Wiser than the Stuarts they had overthrown , they exercised power by shunning its outward forms . They governed in the king's name and legislated through an ...
Page 128
... gave men plenty to eat and drink . In this he spoke for his country . The English ate as though eating were an act of grace ; the very sick were prescribed beefsteaks and port . They ate more than any people because they grew more . A ...
... gave men plenty to eat and drink . In this he spoke for his country . The English ate as though eating were an act of grace ; the very sick were prescribed beefsteaks and port . They ate more than any people because they grew more . A ...
Page 252
... gave for her living in it was , the house was 6d . a week cheaper than others free from the nuisance . ” 1 Such horrors must be seen in proportion : it was only the unprec- edented rapidity and extent of their growth which made them ...
... gave for her living in it was , the house was 6d . a week cheaper than others free from the nuisance . ” 1 Such horrors must be seen in proportion : it was only the unprec- edented rapidity and extent of their growth which made them ...
Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 1 2000 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
Copyright | |
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