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 87
... liberty was the conception of law . It did not coerce a man from acting as he pleased : it only afforded redress to others if in doing so he outraged their rightful liberty or the peace of the community . Every man could appeal to the ...
... liberty was the conception of law . It did not coerce a man from acting as he pleased : it only afforded redress to others if in doing so he outraged their rightful liberty or the peace of the community . Every man could appeal to the ...
Page 147
... liberty to do the same thing again - is very curious . " At first it struck him as irrational , but in the end he decided that it approximated more nearly to natural law than the simpler and more arbitrary processes of other lands . The ...
... liberty to do the same thing again - is very curious . " At first it struck him as irrational , but in the end he decided that it approximated more nearly to natural law than the simpler and more arbitrary processes of other lands . The ...
Page 195
... liberty for the in- dividual . The virtues which made for success in it were largely those which had given England victory in battle and which were engendered by the free and Christian society in which the more fortunate of the English ...
... liberty for the in- dividual . The virtues which made for success in it were largely those which had given England victory in battle and which were engendered by the free and Christian society in which the more fortunate of the English ...
Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
The Yellow Streak | 167 |
The Naked and Outcast | 193 |
Copyright | |
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