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 139
... human effort it could be very irritating ; Wellington once remarked that he brushed his own clothes and regretted that he had not time to clean his boots , for the presence of a crowd of idle , officious fellows annoyed him more than he ...
... human effort it could be very irritating ; Wellington once remarked that he brushed his own clothes and regretted that he had not time to clean his boots , for the presence of a crowd of idle , officious fellows annoyed him more than he ...
Page 241
... human beings . " For to the pure but rootless intellect of the German radical , Engels , they scarcely seemed human such.1 In the letters of Edward Fitzgerald one sees that green England sunning herself in her immemorial peace- " the ...
... human beings . " For to the pure but rootless intellect of the German radical , Engels , they scarcely seemed human such.1 In the letters of Edward Fitzgerald one sees that green England sunning herself in her immemorial peace- " the ...
Page 304
... human exhalations ; troops of pale children nestling on the muddy stairs ; the seats on London Bridge where families , huddled together with dropping heads , shiver through the night ; particularly the Haymarket and the Strand in the ...
... human exhalations ; troops of pale children nestling on the muddy stairs ; the seats on London Bridge where families , huddled together with dropping heads , shiver through the night ; particularly the Haymarket and the Strand in the ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 1 2000 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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