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 99
... played fives in the shady corner under the belfry . Yet those whom the Church neglected , the rejected of the Church ... playing together in the orchard , the clean- dressed , home - spun village people taking the road to church on ...
... played fives in the shady corner under the belfry . Yet those whom the Church neglected , the rejected of the Church ... playing together in the orchard , the clean- dressed , home - spun village people taking the road to church on ...
Page 140
... played at billiards , cards and écarté , looked after their estates , sat on the Bench , and rode , danced and joined in charades with the ladies ; the latter gossiped , sketched , made scrapbooks , embroidered stools , looked at ...
... played at billiards , cards and écarté , looked after their estates , sat on the Bench , and rode , danced and joined in charades with the ladies ; the latter gossiped , sketched , made scrapbooks , embroidered stools , looked at ...
Page 290
... played croquet on ancient lawns or gossiped over " hair brushings " in rooms once habited by Elizabethan statesmen and Carolean divines . The great parks with their noble trees slum- bered in the sunlight of those distant summers ...
... played croquet on ancient lawns or gossiped over " hair brushings " in rooms once habited by Elizabethan statesmen and Carolean divines . The great parks with their noble trees slum- bered in the sunlight of those distant summers ...
Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 1 2000 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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