Downhill All the Way: An Autobiography of the Years 1919-1939 |
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... civilization by continuing in the line of all their lives . And there was something curiously stable and peaceful in the civilization of these two houses . In 1919 when we bought Monks House , Virginia was only just recovered or ...
... civilization by continuing in the line of all their lives . And there was something curiously stable and peaceful in the civilization of these two houses . In 1919 when we bought Monks House , Virginia was only just recovered or ...
Page 226
... civilization . ' Ten , twenty , fifty years later , when it is ten years , twenty years , fifty years too late , when events have out- stripped and outdated X which would have saved civilization , then at last with civilization falling ...
... civilization . ' Ten , twenty , fifty years later , when it is ten years , twenty years , fifty years too late , when events have out- stripped and outdated X which would have saved civilization , then at last with civilization falling ...
Page 248
... civilization , it was appalling impotently to watch the destruction of civilization by a powerful nation completely subservient to a gang of squalid , murderous hooligans . My nephew , Quentin Bell , who was 20 years old in 1930 , has ...
... civilization , it was appalling impotently to watch the destruction of civilization by a powerful nation completely subservient to a gang of squalid , murderous hooligans . My nephew , Quentin Bell , who was 20 years old in 1930 , has ...
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