Beacon Lights of History: New hall of fame. Premier personalitiesWm. H. Wise, 1924 |
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... England , forged the greatest fighting force of English speaking men in history , won a war in which for the first time every national fibre was tested , and guided his nation back to peace . The Hohenzollern had been bred for centuries ...
... England , forged the greatest fighting force of English speaking men in history , won a war in which for the first time every national fibre was tested , and guided his nation back to peace . The Hohenzollern had been bred for centuries ...
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... England speaks today the world still asks " What does Lloyd George say about it ? " How- ever he may be hampered by the ill chances of domes- tic political fortune his personality is still a factor to be reckoned with in determinating ...
... England speaks today the world still asks " What does Lloyd George say about it ? " How- ever he may be hampered by the ill chances of domes- tic political fortune his personality is still a factor to be reckoned with in determinating ...
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... England can be summed up in a single phrase it is probably this : the historic ability of the English to liberalize their constitution as suc- ceeding kinds of privilege became intrenched and oppressive , only some day to be eradicated ...
... England can be summed up in a single phrase it is probably this : the historic ability of the English to liberalize their constitution as suc- ceeding kinds of privilege became intrenched and oppressive , only some day to be eradicated ...
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... England as nowhere else in the world . The Labor Party is forthright in its demand . for a completely socialized state - this for England of today , the modern England whose greatness rests above all on commerce and industry . It was a ...
... England as nowhere else in the world . The Labor Party is forthright in its demand . for a completely socialized state - this for England of today , the modern England whose greatness rests above all on commerce and industry . It was a ...
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... England's coming struggle . There can be no doubt of his early radicalism . He had little chance to be anything else . Non - conformist , intelligent , imaginative , poor , a lawyer and a politi- cian , his natural trend was to seek a ...
... England's coming struggle . There can be no doubt of his early radicalism . He had little chance to be anything else . Non - conformist , intelligent , imaginative , poor , a lawyer and a politi- cian , his natural trend was to seek a ...
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