Stray Shots: Political, Military, Economical, and Social, Volumen25Longmans, Green, and Company, 1884 - 288 páginas |
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Página vii
... inconsistent with patriotism , with pride of race , with empire . I believe it is opposed to every single quality of the English race that has contributed to make them famous . INTRODUCTORY . vii THE BALLOT IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
... inconsistent with patriotism , with pride of race , with empire . I believe it is opposed to every single quality of the English race that has contributed to make them famous . INTRODUCTORY . vii THE BALLOT IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Página viii
... Empire to rapid and complete ruin . I believe the scuttle out of the Transvaal was the most disgraceful incident in the Imperial history of England . I believe that if that disgraceful act had not familiar- ised the nation with ...
... Empire to rapid and complete ruin . I believe the scuttle out of the Transvaal was the most disgraceful incident in the Imperial history of England . I believe that if that disgraceful act had not familiar- ised the nation with ...
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... Empire . My common sense revolts against the reign of exuberant verbosity . I prefer the orator who uses ten words to explain facts , to the orator who uses a thousand words to confuse facts . I think the qualities of a judge are far ...
... Empire . My common sense revolts against the reign of exuberant verbosity . I prefer the orator who uses ten words to explain facts , to the orator who uses a thousand words to confuse facts . I think the qualities of a judge are far ...
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... Empire . It has relieved the country from the nightmare of repeated concession , from the dread of Imperial de- cadence . We have heard political Pharisees so loudly thanking God they were not like other British Ministers , we have ...
... Empire . It has relieved the country from the nightmare of repeated concession , from the dread of Imperial de- cadence . We have heard political Pharisees so loudly thanking God they were not like other British Ministers , we have ...
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... , treated with absolute apathy and indifference . They would see a class to whom the glory of the British Empire is a distasteful theme , who look upon it rather as an incubus to be got rid of , who shudder A FOOL'S PARADISE . 27.
... , treated with absolute apathy and indifference . They would see a class to whom the glory of the British Empire is a distasteful theme , who look upon it rather as an incubus to be got rid of , who shudder A FOOL'S PARADISE . 27.
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