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 171
... nature , and pull - over bar - room taps , umbrellas and waterproof hats , patent folding carriage - steps , automatic cheese - toasters , chairs that sprang out of walking - sticks and braces to keep up trousers , were all , in their ...
... nature , and pull - over bar - room taps , umbrellas and waterproof hats , patent folding carriage - steps , automatic cheese - toasters , chairs that sprang out of walking - sticks and braces to keep up trousers , were all , in their ...
Page 177
... nature by raising gardens with terraces and making ponds and fountains on the sides of hills was corrected , we are told , and the ground restored - with infinite expense and labour - to its pristine natural beauty , with varied ...
... nature by raising gardens with terraces and making ponds and fountains on the sides of hills was corrected , we are told , and the ground restored - with infinite expense and labour - to its pristine natural beauty , with varied ...
Page 207
... nature's mighty feast there is no vacant cover for him . " It was a proof of the extent to which educated and humane Englishmen were bewildered by the immense rise in the population -since 1750 it had almost doubled - and alarmed by the ...
... nature's mighty feast there is no vacant cover for him . " It was a proof of the extent to which educated and humane Englishmen were bewildered by the immense rise in the population -since 1750 it had almost doubled - and alarmed by 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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