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 128
... gave men plenty to eat and drink . In this he spoke for his country . The English ate as though eating were an act of grace ; the very sick were prescribed beefsteaks and port . They ate more than any people because they grew more . A ...
... gave men plenty to eat and drink . In this he spoke for his country . The English ate as though eating were an act of grace ; the very sick were prescribed beefsteaks and port . They ate more than any people because they grew more . A ...
Page 223
... gave was dim and little diffused : to our rustic forefathers it seemed a prodigious illumination . Yet four years were to elapse before the main road from Hyde Park Corner to Kensington was lit by a single lamp . The essential services ...
... gave was dim and little diffused : to our rustic forefathers it seemed a prodigious illumination . Yet four years were to elapse before the main road from Hyde Park Corner to Kensington was lit by a single lamp . The essential services ...
Page 290
... gave bread to seventeen millions and meat to the whole population . Those were the days when the Earl of Ladythorne sat at the covert - side like a gentleman in his opera stall , thinking what a good thing it was to be a lord with a ...
... gave bread to seventeen millions and meat to the whole population . Those were the days when the Earl of Ladythorne sat at the covert - side like a gentleman in his opera stall , thinking what a good thing it was to be a lord with a ...
Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 12 253 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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