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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... past- monasticism , the Latin liturgy , the worship of the Host , shrines , relics , the pilgrimage , and the chantry chapel's obits for the dead . Instead , the reading and individual interpretation of the Bible— made available in a ...
... past- monasticism , the Latin liturgy , the worship of the Host , shrines , relics , the pilgrimage , and the chantry chapel's obits for the dead . Instead , the reading and individual interpretation of the Bible— made available in a ...
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... past half century , was a poor land compared with England . The country women still went about bare - footed , except on Sundays when they attended kirk in fine shawls , black velvet bonnets and looks of ineffable piety . They lived in ...
... past half century , was a poor land compared with England . The country women still went about bare - footed , except on Sundays when they attended kirk in fine shawls , black velvet bonnets and looks of ineffable piety . They lived in ...
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... past , had its strong roots , sending out its shoots into the professional and administrative life of the nation and empire . At the back of the educated Englishman's consciousness in the ' fifties lay always the thought of the country ...
... past , had its strong roots , sending out its shoots into the professional and administrative life of the nation and empire . At the back of the educated Englishman's consciousness in the ' fifties lay always the thought of the country ...
Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
Copyright | |
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