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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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All things bright and beautiful
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An immensely popular hymn of 1848 by Mrs *Alexander, which begins with the more acceptable side of Victorian complacency in the first verse, All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all but drifts into a less attractive aspect of the theme in the third verse, nowadays usually omitted: The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, And ordered their estate.
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