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... but it is far likelier that he was merely a stupid old man doing his best according
to his very dim lights . It is difficult otherwise to explain the contradictions of his
policy , his failure to grasp any of the courses that were England Your England 51
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... but it is far likelier that he was merely a stupid old man doing his best according
to his very dim lights . It is difficult otherwise to explain the contradictions of his
policy , his failure to grasp any of the courses that were England Your England 51
.
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Socialism and the English Genius George Orwell. his failure to grasp any of the
courses that were open to him . Like the mass of the people , he did not want to
pay the price either of peace or of war . And public opinion was behind him all the
...
Socialism and the English Genius George Orwell. his failure to grasp any of the
courses that were open to him . Like the mass of the people , he did not want to
pay the price either of peace or of war . And public opinion was behind him all the
...
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Even when they had begun to grasp that Fascism was dangerous , its essentially
revolutionary nature , the huge military effort it was capable of making , the sort of
tactics it would use , were quite beyond their comprehension . At the time of the ...
Even when they had begun to grasp that Fascism was dangerous , its essentially
revolutionary nature , the huge military effort it was capable of making , the sort of
tactics it would use , were quite beyond their comprehension . At the time of the ...
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| 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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