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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... claim which the draymen and the drivers of hackney coaches were quick to dispute . These last , which waited for their fares in ranks at street corners , were to be had at a shilling a mile or eighteen pence an hour . To travel in them ...
... claim which the draymen and the drivers of hackney coaches were quick to dispute . These last , which waited for their fares in ranks at street corners , were to be had at a shilling a mile or eighteen pence an hour . To travel in them ...
Page 82
... claim would have seemed fantastic . With transport still dependent on the beast and the soft cart- track , the bulk of what was raised could only be consumed locally . Every place and season had its peculiar delicacies . " My dinner ( I ...
... claim would have seemed fantastic . With transport still dependent on the beast and the soft cart- track , the bulk of what was raised could only be consumed locally . Every place and season had its peculiar delicacies . " My dinner ( I ...
Page 207
... claim of right to the smallest portion of food and in fact has no business to be where he is . At nature's mighty feast there is no vacant cover for him . " It was a proof of the extent to which educated and humane Englishmen were ...
... claim of right to the smallest portion of food and in fact has no business to be where he is . At nature's mighty feast there is no vacant cover for him . " It was a proof of the extent to which educated and humane Englishmen were ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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