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... Britain " . , as though 45 million souls could somehow be treated as a unit . But is not England notoriously two nations , the rich and the poor ? Dare one pretend that there is anything in common between people with £ 100,000 a year ...
... Britain " . , as though 45 million souls could somehow be treated as a unit . But is not England notoriously two nations , the rich and the poor ? Dare one pretend that there is anything in common between people with £ 100,000 a year ...
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... Britain , Great Britain , the British Isles , the United Kingdom and , in very exalted moments , Albion . Even the differences between north and south England loom large in our own eyes . But somehow these differences fade away the ...
... Britain , Great Britain , the British Isles , the United Kingdom and , in very exalted moments , Albion . Even the differences between north and south England loom large in our own eyes . But somehow these differences fade away the ...
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... Britain are the princes , the landowners and the business community - in general , the reactionary classes who are doing fairly well out of the status quo . The moment that England ceased to stand towards India in the relation of an ...
... Britain are the princes , the landowners and the business community - in general , the reactionary classes who are doing fairly well out of the status quo . The moment that England ceased to stand towards India in the relation of an ...
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