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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Arthur Bryant. with every eye upon them down Bond Street , St. James's or Pall Mall ; their exquisite French dinners ... eyes of flame twinkling in the darkness . As with a sudden flurry of horses each drew up at its destination , the ...
Arthur Bryant. with every eye upon them down Bond Street , St. James's or Pall Mall ; their exquisite French dinners ... eyes of flame twinkling in the darkness . As with a sudden flurry of horses each drew up at its destination , the ...
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... eyes , powerful nose and jaw , and stern trap mouth , looked like Gladstone , paid £ 2 a year rent for his cottage , never wanted for good whole- some food in all his long life of thrift and labour- " plenty a vege- tables the whool ...
... eyes , powerful nose and jaw , and stern trap mouth , looked like Gladstone , paid £ 2 a year rent for his cottage , never wanted for good whole- some food in all his long life of thrift and labour- " plenty a vege- tables the whool ...
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... eyes be- cause he was vested with popular authority . The English proletarian was a contradiction in terms : economically a wage slave , he was still spiritually and in his own eyes a freeman . He was easily “ put upon " but did not ...
... eyes be- cause he was vested with popular authority . The English proletarian was a contradiction in terms : economically a wage slave , he was still spiritually and in his own eyes a freeman . He was easily “ put upon " but did not ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 12 253 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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