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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... subjects , inspired by their reading of the printed scriptures and the polemics of con- tinental theologians , denounced as idolatrous superstitions many of the leading tenets of the medieval Church - transubstantiation , the ...
... subjects , inspired by their reading of the printed scriptures and the polemics of con- tinental theologians , denounced as idolatrous superstitions many of the leading tenets of the medieval Church - transubstantiation , the ...
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... subjects as though they were planning a new revolution and second republic . But , to do them justice , they were probably quite unconscious of any ulterior purpose but a divine one ; their gloomy and awful prognostications on the fate ...
... subjects as though they were planning a new revolution and second republic . But , to do them justice , they were probably quite unconscious of any ulterior purpose but a divine one ; their gloomy and awful prognostications on the fate ...
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... the Catholics a greater degree of tolerance than their other subjects would countenance . 1 Blundell 71 , 80-1 , 172–7 , 234. See also Powell 176 . The government of this bigoted land rested on triple supports— COUNTRY FAITH AND HABIT 45.
... the Catholics a greater degree of tolerance than their other subjects would countenance . 1 Blundell 71 , 80-1 , 172–7 , 234. See also Powell 176 . The government of this bigoted land rested on triple supports— COUNTRY FAITH AND HABIT 45.
Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
Copyright | |
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