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ii National characteristics are not easy to pin down, and when pinned down they
often turn out to be trivialities or seem to have no connection with one another.
Spaniards are cruel to animals, Italians can do nothing without making a
deafening ...
ii National characteristics are not easy to pin down, and when pinned down they
often turn out to be trivialities or seem to have no connection with one another.
Spaniards are cruel to animals, Italians can do nothing without making a
deafening ...
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But at the same time modern industry is so complicated that it cannot get along
without great numbers of managers, salesmen, engineers, chemists and
technicians of all kinds, drawing fairly large salaries. And these in turn call into
being a ...
But at the same time modern industry is so complicated that it cannot get along
without great numbers of managers, salesmen, engineers, chemists and
technicians of all kinds, drawing fairly large salaries. And these in turn call into
being a ...
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feat in Flanders will turn out to have been one of the great turning-points in
English history. In that spectacular disaster the working class, the middle class
and even a section of the business community could see the utter rottenness of
private ...
feat in Flanders will turn out to have been one of the great turning-points in
English history. In that spectacular disaster the working class, the middle class
and even a section of the business community could see the utter rottenness of
private ...
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| Title | The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius 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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