The Quarterly Review, 282. köideWilliam Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1942 |
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... Empires , from the great Empires of the ancient world down to the German Empire of yesterday , and contrasts with them the still vigorous British Empire of to - day . But those Empires have so far defied the definition and ...
... Empires , from the great Empires of the ancient world down to the German Empire of yesterday , and contrasts with them the still vigorous British Empire of to - day . But those Empires have so far defied the definition and ...
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... Empire is sui generis ; there has been nothing like it in the world before ; were it to disappear there could never be anything like it again . From this it results that there exist no pre- cedents to help towards a solution of the ...
... Empire is sui generis ; there has been nothing like it in the world before ; were it to disappear there could never be anything like it again . From this it results that there exist no pre- cedents to help towards a solution of the ...
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... Empire stood , unified , four square , to face alone and unaided the most powerful military machine the world has ever known . The odds were overwhelmingly unequal . Splendid as was the spirit in which the Empire faced them it is ...
... Empire stood , unified , four square , to face alone and unaided the most powerful military machine the world has ever known . The odds were overwhelmingly unequal . Splendid as was the spirit in which the Empire faced them it is ...
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