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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... looked after themselves and their immediate kin : they refused to endanger their privilege by extending it too widely . Within the confines of their sensible ambition and the law there was no limit to their personal power and enjoyment ...
... looked after themselves and their immediate kin : they refused to endanger their privilege by extending it too widely . Within the confines of their sensible ambition and the law there was no limit to their personal power and enjoyment ...
Page 140
... looked after their estates , sat on the Bench , and rode , danced and joined in charades with the ladies ; the latter gossiped , sketched , made scrapbooks , embroidered stools , looked at engravings , walked in the gardens and ...
... looked after their estates , sat on the Bench , and rode , danced and joined in charades with the ladies ; the latter gossiped , sketched , made scrapbooks , embroidered stools , looked at engravings , walked in the gardens and ...
Page 188
... looked hazy after dinner 1 De Selincourt , Middle Years , II , 612. See Holland Journal , I , 141 ; Mitford , I , 110-11 ; Newton , 89 ; Shelley , I , 3 , 8 , 236 ; II , 17 ; Woodward , 28 , 541 . and sneered at everyone and everything ...
... looked hazy after dinner 1 De Selincourt , Middle Years , II , 612. See Holland Journal , I , 141 ; Mitford , I , 110-11 ; Newton , 89 ; Shelley , I , 3 , 8 , 236 ; II , 17 ; Woodward , 28 , 541 . and sneered at everyone and everything ...
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The Breach with Rome 7 | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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