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 64
... Italy and the Levant . The cloth trade of the West Riding was as yet only concerned with the coarser manufactures . The Yorkshire kerseys of Leeds , Halifax , Huddersfield , Bradford and Wakefield supplied the needs of common folk who ...
... Italy and the Levant . The cloth trade of the West Riding was as yet only concerned with the coarser manufactures . The Yorkshire kerseys of Leeds , Halifax , Huddersfield , Bradford and Wakefield supplied the needs of common folk who ...
Page 137
... Italy had been ransacked by the land- owning classes and applied with innumerable insular and local variations , Palladian , Baroque , Rococo and , more lately , Pompeian and Grecian principles being blended with the national genius for ...
... Italy had been ransacked by the land- owning classes and applied with innumerable insular and local variations , Palladian , Baroque , Rococo and , more lately , Pompeian and Grecian principles being blended with the national genius for ...
Page 138
... Italy and Holland , the same libraries of leather - bound books containing the solid culture of three centuries . And outside would be the cedars , the close - mown lawns , the flower - beds , conservatories and ice - houses , the ...
... Italy and Holland , the same libraries of leather - bound books containing the solid culture of three centuries . And outside would be the cedars , the close - mown lawns , the flower - beds , conservatories and ice - houses , the ...
Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 12 253 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
Copyright | |
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