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 89
... side by side with the burgesses who represented the nation's mercantile interest . Such an assembly was tender to the taxpayer , unsympathetic to the executive . Eighteenth century England had been saved from a recurrence of the ...
... side by side with the burgesses who represented the nation's mercantile interest . Such an assembly was tender to the taxpayer , unsympathetic to the executive . Eighteenth century England had been saved from a recurrence of the ...
Page 166
... side of the pedimented door , the same stone steps over the area crowned by a lamp - post . Only in the beautifully moulded doors and brightly polished knockers , with their lion masks , wreaths and urns , did the English instinct for ...
... side of the pedimented door , the same stone steps over the area crowned by a lamp - post . Only in the beautifully moulded doors and brightly polished knockers , with their lion masks , wreaths and urns , did the English instinct for ...
Page 172
... side to side to avoid huge pools of water and ruts deep enough to break a horse's leg ; as late as the winter of 1797-8 the highway from Tyburn to Oxford was from a foot to eighteen inches deep in mud . The genius of two Lowland Scots ...
... side to side to avoid huge pools of water and ruts deep enough to break a horse's leg ; as late as the winter of 1797-8 the highway from Tyburn to Oxford was from a foot to eighteen inches deep in mud . The genius of two Lowland Scots ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 1 2000 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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