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 145
... hundred viewed with sturdy contempt a bureaucracy recruited by jobbery . The country gentleman who named a litter of puppies , Placeman , Pensioner , Pilferer and Plunderer , was expressing this feeling.1 Any attempt to increase the ...
... hundred viewed with sturdy contempt a bureaucracy recruited by jobbery . The country gentleman who named a litter of puppies , Placeman , Pensioner , Pilferer and Plunderer , was expressing this feeling.1 Any attempt to increase the ...
Page 174
... hundred workpeople apiece ; Dale and Owen at the great New Lanark Mills - though this was exceptional - employed as many as sixteen hundred . Flax and worsted spinning were following the example of cotton , though weaving in all ...
... hundred workpeople apiece ; Dale and Owen at the great New Lanark Mills - though this was exceptional - employed as many as sixteen hundred . Flax and worsted spinning were following the example of cotton , though weaving in all ...
Page 182
... hundred persons had been invited to a house which is not capable of holding more than six hundred . " 1 There were breakfast parties in pastoral mansions among the Middlesex meadows and Surrey woods , water parties in carpeted boats ...
... hundred persons had been invited to a house which is not capable of holding more than six hundred . " 1 There were breakfast parties in pastoral mansions among the Middlesex meadows and Surrey woods , water parties in carpeted boats ...
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The Breach with Rome 7 | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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