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... House of Hanover to be transmuted but not fully muted into the House of Windsor . When Dr Johnson roared out , ' Patriotism , Sir , is the last refuge of a scoundrel ' , he was not reneging on his own Toryism , he was sounding off ...
... House of Hanover to be transmuted but not fully muted into the House of Windsor . When Dr Johnson roared out , ' Patriotism , Sir , is the last refuge of a scoundrel ' , he was not reneging on his own Toryism , he was sounding off ...
Page 67
... house , with its bathroom and electric light , is smaller than the stockbroker's villa , but it is recognizably the same kind of house , which the farm lab- - ourer's cottage is not . A person who has England Your England 67.
... house , with its bathroom and electric light , is smaller than the stockbroker's villa , but it is recognizably the same kind of house , which the farm lab- - ourer's cottage is not . A person who has England Your England 67.
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... houses , along the concrete roads and in the naked democracy of the swimming - pools . It is a rather restless , cultureless life , centring round tinned food , Picture Post , the radio and the internal combustion engine . It is a ...
... houses , along the concrete roads and in the naked democracy of the swimming - pools . It is a rather restless , cultureless life , centring round tinned food , Picture Post , the radio and the internal combustion engine . It is a ...
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