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 49
... kind , " I would advise you to eat your words immediately , else - by the living God - I'll cram them down your throat with my sword - and that very shortly . " But when his temper was not aroused , the typical squire , like Addison's ...
... kind , " I would advise you to eat your words immediately , else - by the living God - I'll cram them down your throat with my sword - and that very shortly . " But when his temper was not aroused , the typical squire , like Addison's ...
Page 239
... kind , defying the sombre black of the encroach- ing towns , that landscape owed at least a part of its enchantment . The lovely primary colours of the English past that to - day only survive in the dress uniform of the Guards and the ...
... kind , defying the sombre black of the encroach- ing towns , that landscape owed at least a part of its enchantment . The lovely primary colours of the English past that to - day only survive in the dress uniform of the Guards and the ...
Page 271
... kind : there was much drunkenness and often a good deal of brutality . But at its core was an invincible love of good fare and of sport . In Lancashire and the West Riding , gala days , wakes and feasts emptied the mine and stopped the ...
... kind : there was much drunkenness and often a good deal of brutality . But at its core was an invincible love of good fare and of sport . In Lancashire and the West Riding , gala days , wakes and feasts emptied the mine and stopped the ...
Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 1 2000 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
Copyright | |
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