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 103
... round the bare rude table , the local worthies , with russet , weather - beaten faces , cracked their joke and trolled their song . Though their summer was brief before winter aches and penury encompassed them , they knew how to be ...
... round the bare rude table , the local worthies , with russet , weather - beaten faces , cracked their joke and trolled their song . Though their summer was brief before winter aches and penury encompassed them , they knew how to be ...
Page 111
... round with garlanded bowls , cleav- ing the wintry skies with their song : " Here's to our horse and to his right ear , God send our master a happy New Year ; A happy New Year as e'er he did see , With my wassailing bowl I drink to thee ...
... round with garlanded bowls , cleav- ing the wintry skies with their song : " Here's to our horse and to his right ear , God send our master a happy New Year ; A happy New Year as e'er he did see , With my wassailing bowl I drink to thee ...
Page 291
... round the med- durs " 1 - worked on his allotment every night when his day's work was done and boasted that he had never missed a feast in any one of the villages about , and that he had once carried a nine - gallon cask of ale in a ...
... round the med- durs " 1 - worked on his allotment every night when his day's work was done and boasted that he had never missed a feast in any one of the villages about , and that he had once carried a nine - gallon cask of ale in a ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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