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Yes , there is something distinctive and recognizable in English civilization . It is a
culture as individual as that of Spain . It is somehow bound up with solid
breakfasts and gloomy Sundays , smoky towns and winding roads , green fields
and red ...
Yes , there is something distinctive and recognizable in English civilization . It is a
culture as individual as that of Spain . It is somehow bound up with solid
breakfasts and gloomy Sundays , smoky towns and winding roads , green fields
and red ...
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And underlying this is the really important fact about so many of the English
intelligentsia — their severance from the common culture of the country . In
intention , at any rate , the English intelligentsia are Europeanized . They take
their cookery ...
And underlying this is the really important fact about so many of the English
intelligentsia — their severance from the common culture of the country . In
intention , at any rate , the English intelligentsia are Europeanized . They take
their cookery ...
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From the English - speaking culture , if it does not perish , a society of free and
equal human beings will ultimately arise . But it is precisely the idea of human
equality — the “ Jewish ” or “ JudæoChristian ” idea of equality — that Hitler came
...
From the English - speaking culture , if it does not perish , a society of free and
equal human beings will ultimately arise . But it is precisely the idea of human
equality — the “ Jewish ” or “ JudæoChristian ” idea of equality — that Hitler came
...
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| Title | The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius The Uniform Edition of George Orwell Works, George Orwell [His works. Uniform edition], George Orwell |
| Author | George Orwell |
| Publisher | Secker and Warburg, 1962 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 11 Feb 2011 |
| Length | 96 pages |
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