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... outlook , their graded snobberies , their mix- ture of bawdiness and hypocrisy , their extreme gentleness , their deeply moral atti- tude to life , are all mirrored there . The gentleness of the English civilization is perhaps its most ...
... outlook , their graded snobberies , their mix- ture of bawdiness and hypocrisy , their extreme gentleness , their deeply moral atti- tude to life , are all mirrored there . The gentleness of the English civilization is perhaps its most ...
Page 48
... outlook that was sometimes squashily pacifist , sometimes violently pro - Russian , but always anti- British . It is questionable how much effect this had , but it certainly had some . If the English people suffered for several years a ...
... outlook that was sometimes squashily pacifist , sometimes violently pro - Russian , but always anti- British . It is questionable how much effect this had , but it certainly had some . If the English people suffered for several years a ...
Page 90
... outlook , with little interest in imperial affairs and no contacts among the men who actually held the Empire together . It would have had to hand over the administration of India and Africa and the whole job of imperial defence to men ...
... outlook , with little interest in imperial affairs and no contacts among the men who actually held the Empire together . It would have had to hand over the administration of India and Africa and the whole job of imperial defence to men ...
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