The Quarterly Review, Volume 282William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1942 |
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... English trained ; her army was organised on lines which in May 1940 had proved the German model to be the finest ever invented by man ; the British Empire was fighting for existence ; alone , unaided . What circumstances could ever ...
... English trained ; her army was organised on lines which in May 1940 had proved the German model to be the finest ever invented by man ; the British Empire was fighting for existence ; alone , unaided . What circumstances could ever ...
Page 178
... English lives and English money were being sacrificed for what were felt to be no longer English ends . Indeed , domestic and foreign affairs were very closely connected where Great Britain was concerned . The pro- secution of Dr ...
... English lives and English money were being sacrificed for what were felt to be no longer English ends . Indeed , domestic and foreign affairs were very closely connected where Great Britain was concerned . The pro- secution of Dr ...
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... English people is the land and soil of Britain . If the English character were to lose its robustness and independence , it would lose its very substance and England would cease to be England . Disraeli understood the English character ...
... English people is the land and soil of Britain . If the English character were to lose its robustness and independence , it would lose its very substance and England would cease to be England . Disraeli understood the English character ...
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