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 50
... Young ladies with fortunes were , of course , easily disposable ; “ Sir Ambrose Crawley's daughters go off apace , but £ 50,000 ladies will never stick on hand . " But no father would allow a son with ex- pectations to marry a girl ...
... Young ladies with fortunes were , of course , easily disposable ; “ Sir Ambrose Crawley's daughters go off apace , but £ 50,000 ladies will never stick on hand . " But no father would allow a son with ex- pectations to marry a girl ...
Page 51
... young people before the wedding , a conventional phraseology of courtship was de rigeur . They called themselves one another's " servants " and wrote such letters as young William Blundell with his father's aid wrote to Mary Eyre : " Oh ...
... young people before the wedding , a conventional phraseology of courtship was de rigeur . They called themselves one another's " servants " and wrote such letters as young William Blundell with his father's aid wrote to Mary Eyre : " Oh ...
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... young master ' ? " The game was played by the Prince Regent - before he let down his belly - on his ground at Brighton , by the aristocracy who liked to gamble over it , and by the young farmers and labour- ers of almost every south ...
... young master ' ? " The game was played by the Prince Regent - before he let down his belly - on his ground at Brighton , by the aristocracy who liked to gamble over it , and by the young farmers and labour- ers of almost every south ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 12 253 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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