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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... faces and long spidery legs as thick at the ankles as at the hips . " Tom was the driest and most rigid - limbed chap ... face , unflinching , uncompromising independent man . He placed a full and just value upon the station he held in ...
... faces and long spidery legs as thick at the ankles as at the hips . " Tom was the driest and most rigid - limbed chap ... face , unflinching , uncompromising independent man . He placed a full and just value upon the station he held in ...
Page 127
... face and figure and a good - humoured obsti- nacy , a civil importance . He never boasts of his wealth or gives himself undue airs ; but nobody can meet him at market or vestry without finding him the richest man there . " The same ...
... face and figure and a good - humoured obsti- nacy , a civil importance . He never boasts of his wealth or gives himself undue airs ; but nobody can meet him at market or vestry without finding him the richest man there . " The same ...
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Arthur Bryant. readiness , the combatants face to face , the English were in a kind of heaven . The gladiators ... faces under punishment impressed themselves on the memory of the islanders more than all their country's martial victories ...
Arthur Bryant. readiness , the combatants face to face , the English were in a kind of heaven . The gladiators ... faces under punishment impressed themselves on the memory of the islanders more than all their country's martial victories ...
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The Breach with Rome 7 | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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