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Page 11
... whole nation has a single identifiable character . Are there really such things as nations ? Are we not 46 million individuals , all different ? And the diversity of it , the chaos ! The clatter of clogs in the Lanca- shire mill towns ...
... whole nation has a single identifiable character . Are there really such things as nations ? Are we not 46 million individuals , all different ? And the diversity of it , the chaos ! The clatter of clogs in the Lanca- shire mill towns ...
Page 71
... whole of the older genera- tion conspired to pretend that it was the war of 1914-18 over again . All the old duds were back on the job , twenty years older , with the skull plainer in their faces . Ian Hay was cheering up the troops ...
... whole of the older genera- tion conspired to pretend that it was the war of 1914-18 over again . All the old duds were back on the job , twenty years older , with the skull plainer in their faces . Ian Hay was cheering up the troops ...
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... whole English - speaking world is haunted by the idea of human equality , and though it would be simply a lie to say that either we or the Americans have ever acted up to our professions , still , the idea is there , and it is capable ...
... whole English - speaking world is haunted by the idea of human equality , and though it would be simply a lie to say that either we or the Americans have ever acted up to our professions , still , the idea is there , and it is capable ...
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