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 55
... called upon to govern . " In all your letters , ” wrote a squire during a political crisis , “ I find not one word of horse , hawk and hound . " It needed a time of exceptional stress to cause such an omission . The country was still ...
... called upon to govern . " In all your letters , ” wrote a squire during a political crisis , “ I find not one word of horse , hawk and hound . " It needed a time of exceptional stress to cause such an omission . The country was still ...
Page 109
... called Huntingdon , “ that tend to lengthen life and make it happy . " At Winchester , when Keats stayed there in 1819 , nothing ever seemed to be happening in the still , cobbled streets ; nothing but the sound of birds in the gardens ...
... called Huntingdon , “ that tend to lengthen life and make it happy . " At Winchester , when Keats stayed there in 1819 , nothing ever seemed to be happening in the still , cobbled streets ; nothing but the sound of birds in the gardens ...
Page 148
... called later , the " squire of England " -a shrivelled - up , bantam- cock of a man with short legs , a limp , a gorilla chest and a face like a fox cub , excelled at every sport he touched , boxing , pigeon- shooting , steeplechasing ...
... called later , the " squire of England " -a shrivelled - up , bantam- cock of a man with short legs , a limp , a gorilla chest and a face like a fox cub , excelled at every sport he touched , boxing , pigeon- shooting , steeplechasing ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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