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 151
... reached its apogee , the fanatics of the Orange Lodges on the anniversary of the battle of the Boyne gave expression to this sentiment in a toast : " To the glorious , pious and Immortal Memory of King William III , who saved us from ...
... reached its apogee , the fanatics of the Orange Lodges on the anniversary of the battle of the Boyne gave expression to this sentiment in a toast : " To the glorious , pious and Immortal Memory of King William III , who saved us from ...
Page 176
... reached manhood into the Army , Navy , East and West Indies , and , he might have added , the Bar , the counting - house and factory . Almost everything the English rich did served the ends of style . It created both the external beauty ...
... reached manhood into the Army , Navy , East and West Indies , and , he might have added , the Bar , the counting - house and factory . Almost everything the English rich did served the ends of style . It created both the external beauty ...
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... reached their climax in 1821 in the spectacle of a stout vulgar and hysterical German queen vainly attempting amid the plaudits of the mob to force an entry into the Abbey at the coronation of her adulterous and bigamous spouse . Though ...
... reached their climax in 1821 in the spectacle of a stout vulgar and hysterical German queen vainly attempting amid the plaudits of the mob to force an entry into the Abbey at the coronation of her adulterous and bigamous spouse . Though ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 12 253 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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