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HISTORY records the rise , decline , and fall of many Empires , from the great Empires of the ancient world down to the German Empire of yesterday , and contrasts with them the still vigorous British Empire of to - day .
HISTORY records the rise , decline , and fall of many Empires , from the great Empires of the ancient world down to the German Empire of yesterday , and contrasts with them the still vigorous British Empire of to - day .
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Yet even in the absence of classification we can say with assurance that the British Empire is sui generis ; there has been nothing like it in the world before ; were it to disappear there could never be anything like it again .
Yet even in the absence of classification we can say with assurance that the British Empire is sui generis ; there has been nothing like it in the world before ; were it to disappear there could never be anything like it again .
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The whole British Empire stood , unified , four square , to face alone and unaided the most powerful military machine the world has ever known . The odds were overwhelmingly unequal . Splendid as was the spirit in which the Empire faced ...
The whole British Empire stood , unified , four square , to face alone and unaided the most powerful military machine the world has ever known . The odds were overwhelmingly unequal . Splendid as was the spirit in which the Empire faced ...
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 282 |
| Editors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1942 |
| Original from | Rutgers University |
| Digitized | 14 Mar 2022 |
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