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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... wrote such letters as young William Blundell with his father's aid wrote to Mary Eyre : " Oh ! my most honoured dear lady , how shall I count those unkind hours that keep me from so great a joy ? I told you once before ( as I hope I did ...
... wrote such letters as young William Blundell with his father's aid wrote to Mary Eyre : " Oh ! my most honoured dear lady , how shall I count those unkind hours that keep me from so great a joy ? I told you once before ( as I hope I did ...
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... wrote Lady Hobart of a newly wedded niece , " and grows a notable housewife and delights in it . ” The end of seventeenth century marriage was the procreation of children . “ I hope , ” a husband wrote , “ that I shall yet live to see ...
... wrote Lady Hobart of a newly wedded niece , " and grows a notable housewife and delights in it . ” The end of seventeenth century marriage was the procreation of children . “ I hope , ” a husband wrote , “ that I shall yet live to see ...
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... wrote , a monstrous deal of stupid quizzing and commonplace nonsense talked , but scarcely any wit . What there was of it lacked spontaneity ; in the salons where the conversation of the rival wits " raged , " it was often tedious ...
... wrote , a monstrous deal of stupid quizzing and commonplace nonsense talked , but scarcely any wit . What there was of it lacked spontaneity ; in the salons where the conversation of the rival wits " raged , " it was often tedious ...
Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 12 253 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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