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... popularity are always a tale of disasters and retreats . There is no popular poem about Trafalgar or Waterloo , for instance . Sir John Moore's army at Corunna , fighting a desperate rearguard action before escaping overseas ( just like ...
... popularity are always a tale of disasters and retreats . There is no popular poem about Trafalgar or Waterloo , for instance . Sir John Moore's army at Corunna , fighting a desperate rearguard action before escaping overseas ( just like ...
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... popular opinion really make itself heard , let them get a tug from below that they cannot avoid feeling , and it is difficult for them not to respond . The left - wing writers who denounce the whole of the ruling class as " pro ...
... popular opinion really make itself heard , let them get a tug from below that they cannot avoid feeling , and it is difficult for them not to respond . The left - wing writers who denounce the whole of the ruling class as " pro ...
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... popular journalists and industrial chemists . They are the indeterminate stratum at which the older class distinctions are beginning to break down . This war , unless we are defeated , will wipe out most of the existing class privileges ...
... popular journalists and industrial chemists . They are the indeterminate stratum at which the older class distinctions are beginning to break down . This war , unless we are defeated , will wipe out most of the existing class privileges ...
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