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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... sometimes giving access on to a hundred others , sometimes ending in nothing , like that " blind alley , on the backside of Mr. Trice's house , just at the close of the evening , ” where Dryden's wild gallant was wont to 26 SET IN A ...
... sometimes giving access on to a hundred others , sometimes ending in nothing , like that " blind alley , on the backside of Mr. Trice's house , just at the close of the evening , ” where Dryden's wild gallant was wont to 26 SET IN A ...
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... sometimes years , would pass before the final details were complete and the young people free to wed . In one case , when the latter took matters into their own hands and married before the legal formalities were com- 1 Verney Memoirs ...
... sometimes years , would pass before the final details were complete and the young people free to wed . In one case , when the latter took matters into their own hands and married before the legal formalities were com- 1 Verney Memoirs ...
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... Sometimes , especially in the case of Government dispatches , they were further superscribed with directions to local postmasters and postboys . " Haste , haste , haste , " was scrawled across one letter which must have aroused much ...
... Sometimes , especially in the case of Government dispatches , they were further superscribed with directions to local postmasters and postboys . " Haste , haste , haste , " was scrawled across one letter which must have aroused much ...
Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 1 2000 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
Copyright | |
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