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 107
... wealth and splendour of London and the garden of Kent and Sussex . There were the marshes and fens with their half - animal fishermen and fowlers ; poor primitive villages along the rocky , western coasts with mud walls and blackened ...
... wealth and splendour of London and the garden of Kent and Sussex . There were the marshes and fens with their half - animal fishermen and fowlers ; poor primitive villages along the rocky , western coasts with mud walls and blackened ...
Page 239
... wealth , with clippers bringing tribute from Pagoda Bay and the far ends of the earth , and the rough , passionate sailors whom coastwise England bred , singing as they pulled on the ropes how soon they would " be in London city , Blow ...
... wealth , with clippers bringing tribute from Pagoda Bay and the far ends of the earth , and the rough , passionate sailors whom coastwise England bred , singing as they pulled on the ropes how soon they would " be in London city , Blow ...
Page 294
... wealth was both impressive and terrifying . The old talkative , hail - fellow - well - met London was yielding place to one more sombre and self - contained . Men went silent and absorbed about their business : " faces do not laugh ...
... wealth was both impressive and terrifying . The old talkative , hail - fellow - well - met London was yielding place to one more sombre and self - contained . Men went silent and absorbed about their business : " faces do not laugh ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 1 2000 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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