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Fortunately , Dr Stresemann's sense of humour was not less acute than Briand's , and if his wit was neither so incisive nor so ready , he was not inferior even to Briand himself in political courage . From the portraits we turn to the ...
Fortunately , Dr Stresemann's sense of humour was not less acute than Briand's , and if his wit was neither so incisive nor so ready , he was not inferior even to Briand himself in political courage . From the portraits we turn to the ...
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... a consummate master of debate , who could wield with equal dexterity the arms of ridicule and reason , ' after referring to the ' majestic sense of Thurlow , and the skilful eloquence of Wedderburn , ' to Fox and Burke , he proceeds ...
... a consummate master of debate , who could wield with equal dexterity the arms of ridicule and reason , ' after referring to the ' majestic sense of Thurlow , and the skilful eloquence of Wedderburn , ' to Fox and Burke , he proceeds ...
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There is a sense in which all history is coincidence : the internal decay of the Roman spirit and organisation coinciding with the invasions of the barbarians ; the geographical discoveries of new worlds coinciding with the astronomical ...
There is a sense in which all history is coincidence : the internal decay of the Roman spirit and organisation coinciding with the invasions of the barbarians ; the geographical discoveries of new worlds coinciding with the astronomical ...
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ART PAGB 1 12 6 1 Economic Separatism in the British Empire | 1 |
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