Set in a Silver SeaA 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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pleted , the father of the bride - who gained greatly by the bridegroom's impatience - wrote to his discomfited opposite , “ And to show you he is your own son , we had much ado to keep him from kissing his bride before matrimony was ...
pleted , the father of the bride - who gained greatly by the bridegroom's impatience - wrote to his discomfited opposite , “ And to show you he is your own son , we had much ado to keep him from kissing his bride before matrimony was ...
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“ I hear she looks to her house well , ” wrote Lady Hobart of a newly wedded niece , “ and grows a notable housewife and delights in it . ” The end of seventeenth century marriage was the procreation of children .
“ I hear she looks to her house well , ” wrote Lady Hobart of a newly wedded niece , “ and grows a notable housewife and delights in it . ” The end of seventeenth century marriage was the procreation of children .
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There was , as Jane Austen wrote , a monstrous deal of stupid quizzing and commonplace nonsense talked , but scarcely any wit . What there was of it lacked spontaneity ; in the salons where the conversation of the rival wits “ raged ...
There was , as Jane Austen wrote , a monstrous deal of stupid quizzing and commonplace nonsense talked , but scarcely any wit . What there was of it lacked spontaneity ; in the salons where the conversation of the rival wits “ raged ...
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Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Set in a Silver Sea Anchor A680 Volume 680 of Anchor books Doubleday anchor books English social history |
| Author | Arthur Bryant |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Doubleday, 1968 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 31 Aug 2007 |
| Length | 359 pages |
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