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 127
... 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 observer drew the greatest farmer of them all , as she remembered him in the ...
... 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 observer drew the greatest farmer of them all , as she remembered him in the ...
Page 188
... never returned . She herself was unable to enjoy a fête at Geneva because some vulgar English were looking on , and felt a strong prejudice against Peel on account of his birth . Even so choice a spirit as Mary Mitford could not escape ...
... never returned . She herself was unable to enjoy a fête at Geneva because some vulgar English were looking on , and felt a strong prejudice against Peel on account of his birth . Even so choice a spirit as Mary Mitford could not escape ...
Page 313
... never heard of laissez - faire , could not . He never even tried . For he was nothing if not sentimental , and under his corduroys beat a heart full of English instincts and prejudices . One of them was an incorrigible desire to help ...
... never heard of laissez - faire , could not . He never even tried . For he was nothing if not sentimental , and under his corduroys beat a heart full of English instincts and prejudices . One of them was an incorrigible desire to help ...
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The Breach with Rome 7 | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
Copyright | |
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