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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... kingdom of Portugal that during the fifteenth century , under the aegis of a grandson of John of Gaunt , paved the way to this transformation of the globe . By breaking in 1497 into the Indian Ocean her seamen achieved what the ...
... kingdom of Portugal that during the fifteenth century , under the aegis of a grandson of John of Gaunt , paved the way to this transformation of the globe . By breaking in 1497 into the Indian Ocean her seamen achieved what the ...
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... kingdom were open to their horses and hounds , the genius of man , past and present , was brought to decorate their houses and gardens , to fill their libraries with the masterpieces of the classical and modern mind , to cover their ...
... kingdom were open to their horses and hounds , the genius of man , past and present , was brought to decorate their houses and gardens , to fill their libraries with the masterpieces of the classical and modern mind , to cover their ...
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... kingdom had emerged victorious while assuring her people social order and freedom of choice . Britain might not be the utopia of the philosophers , but she seemed nearer it than anything mankind had yet achieved . At the time of her ...
... kingdom had emerged victorious while assuring her people social order and freedom of choice . Britain might not be the utopia of the philosophers , but she seemed nearer it than anything mankind had yet achieved . At the time of her ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 1 2000 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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