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 48
... feudal tenures and the spoliation of the monasteries had combined to create an aristocracy of dynastic landed families whose estates and traditions were transmitted unbroken by the partition that occurred in other European countries ...
... feudal tenures and the spoliation of the monasteries had combined to create an aristocracy of dynastic landed families whose estates and traditions were transmitted unbroken by the partition that occurred in other European countries ...
Page 107
... feudal Highlands - the primitive land of mountain and flood made fashionable by Walter Scott's poems and novels . Here , in poor shepherds ' huts full of animals and peat - smoke , lived a race whose splendid physique and proud 1 Smith ...
... feudal Highlands - the primitive land of mountain and flood made fashionable by Walter Scott's poems and novels . Here , in poor shepherds ' huts full of animals and peat - smoke , lived a race whose splendid physique and proud 1 Smith ...
Page 108
... feudal south . Here , Washington Irving wrote , everything was the growth of ages , of regular and peaceful existence , conveying an impression of “ calm and settled security , an hereditary transmission of home- bred virtues and ...
... feudal south . Here , Washington Irving wrote , everything was the growth of ages , of regular and peaceful existence , conveying an impression of “ calm and settled security , an hereditary transmission of home- bred virtues and ...
Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
Copyright | |
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