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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... whom were lodged in its dungeons and who , aided by bribery , almost as constantly escaped - and , in the case of very distinguished visitors , by the royal Deputy Master of Ceremonies sent down from London to Approach to the Capital.
... whom were lodged in its dungeons and who , aided by bribery , almost as constantly escaped - and , in the case of very distinguished visitors , by the royal Deputy Master of Ceremonies sent down from London to Approach to the Capital.
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... capital back in interest every other year for half a century . The first Sir Robert Peel , a dispossessed yeoman's son who invested in a few of the early spinning jennies , left nearly a million sterling . A Bristol merchant , worth at ...
... capital back in interest every other year for half a century . The first Sir Robert Peel , a dispossessed yeoman's son who invested in a few of the early spinning jennies , left nearly a million sterling . A Bristol merchant , worth at ...
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... capital invested on them , nothing was spent on appearance . The factory buildings were shabby and ugly , and added at different times without attempt at design or reference to convenience or beauty . Industrial capital was only ...
... capital invested on them , nothing was spent on appearance . The factory buildings were shabby and ugly , and added at different times without attempt at design or reference to convenience or beauty . Industrial capital was only ...
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The Breach with Rome 7 | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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