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 38
... rich foam on the surface of the na- tional brew - but England was the country . And , as the population did not much exceed five millions , there was space in it - elbow- room for liberty , and solitude for thought and unsullied ...
... rich foam on the surface of the na- tional brew - but England was the country . And , as the population did not much exceed five millions , there was space in it - elbow- room for liberty , and solitude for thought and unsullied ...
Page 89
... rich , made our landed estates infinitely more valuable and added to them the accession of other estates as valuable as the lands themselves . " The development of commerce under the Hanoverians was prodigious . In 1720 the value of the ...
... rich , made our landed estates infinitely more valuable and added to them the accession of other estates as valuable as the lands themselves . " The development of commerce under the Hanoverians was prodigious . In 1720 the value of the ...
Page 179
... rich had become almost too rich for reason . Lord Alvanley , whose dinners were said to be the best in London , had an apricot tart on his table every day of the year and , when his maître d'hôtel expostulated at the expense , sent him ...
... rich had become almost too rich for reason . Lord Alvanley , whose dinners were said to be the best in London , had an apricot tart on his table every day of the year and , when his maître d'hôtel expostulated at the expense , sent him ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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