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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 189
... civilization or savagery , and I am sure that I should soon feel suffocated if I had to live my life in the featherbed civilization of Delft or The Hague . Yet there is in fact a great deal to be said for it and for a short time it is ...
... civilization or savagery , and I am sure that I should soon feel suffocated if I had to live my life in the featherbed civilization of Delft or The Hague . Yet there is in fact a great deal to be said for it and for a short time it is ...
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... 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, fifty years later , when it is ten years , twenty years , fifty years too late , when events have out- stripped and outdated X which would have saved civilization , then at last with civilization falling ...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, fifty years later , when it is ten years , twenty years , fifty years too late , when events have out- stripped and outdated X which would have saved civilization , then at last with civilization falling ...
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