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Few Europeans can endure living in England , and even Americans often feel
more at home in Europe . ... The crowds in the big towns , with their mild knobby
faces , their bad teeth and gentle manners , are different from a European ...
Few Europeans can endure living in England , and even Americans often feel
more at home in Europe . ... The crowds in the big towns , with their mild knobby
faces , their bad teeth and gentle manners , are different from a European ...
Page 48
But somehow these differences fade away the moment that any two Britons are
confronted by a European . It is very rare to meet a foreigner , other than an
American , who can distinguish between English and Scots or even English and
Irish .
But somehow these differences fade away the moment that any two Britons are
confronted by a European . It is very rare to meet a foreigner , other than an
American , who can distinguish between English and Scots or even English and
Irish .
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Here one comes back to two English characteristics that I pointed out , seemingly
at random , at the beginning of the last chapter . One is the lack of artistic ability .
This is perhaps another way of saying that the English are outside the European
...
Here one comes back to two English characteristics that I pointed out , seemingly
at random , at the beginning of the last chapter . One is the lack of artistic ability .
This is perhaps another way of saying that the English are outside the European
...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius A Penguin book : Polit. science Volume 6327 of Penguin Books Penguin twentieth-century classics |
| Author | George Orwell |
| Editor | Bernard R. Crick |
| Contributor | Bernard R. Crick |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Penguin Books, 1982 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Sep 2010 |
| ISBN | 0140063277, 9780140063271 |
| Length | 123 pages |
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