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 139
... human effort it could be very irritating ; Wellington once remarked that he brushed his own clothes and regretted that he had not time to clean his boots , for the presence of a crowd of idle , officious fellows annoyed him more than he ...
... human effort it could be very irritating ; Wellington once remarked that he brushed his own clothes and regretted that he had not time to clean his boots , for the presence of a crowd of idle , officious fellows annoyed him more than he ...
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... human posterior by name , yet in mixed company would roar with laughter at the story of the lady who said she had plenty to sit on but nowhere to put it . Mr. Roget in his famous Thesaurus of English words and phrases , published in ...
... human posterior by name , yet in mixed company would roar with laughter at the story of the lady who said she had plenty to sit on but nowhere to put it . Mr. Roget in his famous Thesaurus of English words and phrases , published in ...
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... human exhalations ; troops of pale children nestling on the muddy stairs ; the seats on London Bridge where families , huddled together with dropping heads , shiver through the night ; particularly the Haymarket and the Strand in the ...
... human exhalations ; troops of pale children nestling on the muddy stairs ; the seats on London Bridge where families , huddled together with dropping heads , shiver through the night ; particularly the Haymarket and the Strand in the ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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