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 46
... doors would part and the king himself pass through the crowd , followed by a group of ministers and suitors from Bed- chamber or Council Room , still contending for that royal ear whose retention was at once the hardest and most ...
... doors would part and the king himself pass through the crowd , followed by a group of ministers and suitors from Bed- chamber or Council Room , still contending for that royal ear whose retention was at once the hardest and most ...
Page 166
... door , the same stone steps over the area crowned by a lamp - post . Only in the beautifully moulded doors and brightly polished knockers , with their lion masks , wreaths and urns , did the English instinct for individuality break ...
... door , the same stone steps over the area crowned by a lamp - post . Only in the beautifully moulded doors and brightly polished knockers , with their lion masks , wreaths and urns , did the English instinct for individuality break ...
Page 284
... doors . Drunken women by the hundred lay about higgledy - piggledy in the mud , hollow- eyed and purple - cheeked , their ragged clothing plastered with muck.1 Occasionally one would stagger up to fight or beat off some whimpering wife ...
... doors . Drunken women by the hundred lay about higgledy - piggledy in the mud , hollow- eyed and purple - cheeked , their ragged clothing plastered with muck.1 Occasionally one would stagger up to fight or beat off some whimpering wife ...
Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 12 253 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
Copyright | |
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