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 105
... millions , the long struggle doubled her export trade and trebled her revenue . The carrying trade of the world was in her ... million tons , while her commerce with the Spanish and Portuguese colonies in South America had increased ...
... millions , the long struggle doubled her export trade and trebled her revenue . The carrying trade of the world was in her ... million tons , while her commerce with the Spanish and Portuguese colonies in South America had increased ...
Page 106
... million English , two million Scots and half a million Welsh , and a subordinate one inhabited by five million Catholic Irish peasants and a million Protestants of Anglo - Scottish descent who alone held the right to sit in parliament ...
... million English , two million Scots and half a million Welsh , and a subordinate one inhabited by five million Catholic Irish peasants and a million Protestants of Anglo - Scottish descent who alone held the right to sit in parliament ...
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... million what the million wanted . Being obscure it wanted flattery and , being poor , a share of the pleasures of the rich . The cheap newspaper gave it the one and fed its appetite for the other . It promised that a time was coming ...
... million what the million wanted . Being obscure it wanted flattery and , being poor , a share of the pleasures of the rich . The cheap newspaper gave it the one and fed its appetite for the other . It promised that a time was coming ...
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Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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