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The hyperbole of the ' Sure Shield , ' in the days when the maritime supremacy of England was in the making , was based , not on the spirit of the Navy alone , but on a policy , widespreading in its action , of ships ' timber and naval ...
The hyperbole of the ' Sure Shield , ' in the days when the maritime supremacy of England was in the making , was based , not on the spirit of the Navy alone , but on a policy , widespreading in its action , of ships ' timber and naval ...
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The need of the Navy was not difficult to formulate : well - stocked forests near to navigable rivers , so that timber might be brought at a reasonable expense to the yards . But it was of almost equal importance to find honest ...
The need of the Navy was not difficult to formulate : well - stocked forests near to navigable rivers , so that timber might be brought at a reasonable expense to the yards . But it was of almost equal importance to find honest ...
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The Secretary's work , which earned for him the title “ The right hand of the Navy , ' resulted in the obtaining of such an enlargement of magazines and the amassing therein of such a treasure of stores , as Engl never before mistress ...
The Secretary's work , which earned for him the title “ The right hand of the Navy , ' resulted in the obtaining of such an enlargement of magazines and the amassing therein of such a treasure of stores , as Engl never before mistress ...
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Contents
CONTENTS OF Nos 466 AND | 1 |
I Sir Wilfrid Laurier II General Louis Botha | 2 |
The Ginestra or The Desert Flower | 3 |
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 236 |
| 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) |
| Contributor | George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1921 |
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