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Socialism and the English Genius George Orwell. in control - that , perhaps , is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase . iv Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing - fields of Eton , but the opening ...
Socialism and the English Genius George Orwell. in control - that , perhaps , is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase . iv Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing - fields of Eton , but the opening ...
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... perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality . In left - wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at ...
... perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality . In left - wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at ...
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... perhaps even within six months , if we are still unconquered , we shall see the rise of something that has never existed before , a specifically English Socialist movement . Hitherto there has been only the Labour Party , which was the ...
... perhaps even within six months , if we are still unconquered , we shall see the rise of something that has never existed before , a specifically English Socialist movement . Hitherto there has been only the Labour Party , which was the ...
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