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Mr Guy Boas , writing from Sloane School , Chelsea , to ' The Times , ' * said , '
English for English boys and girls is atavistic : the instinct to speak English is
already there . And , subconsciously , the recapitulation of other ancestral
experience ...
Mr Guy Boas , writing from Sloane School , Chelsea , to ' The Times , ' * said , '
English for English boys and girls is atavistic : the instinct to speak English is
already there . And , subconsciously , the recapitulation of other ancestral
experience ...
Page 446
The policy of the English government has more than once influenced the English
palate , and instances of this are to be found at a very early date . There is
evidence that wine was made in Britain in Roman times , possibly from grapes
grown ...
The policy of the English government has more than once influenced the English
palate , and instances of this are to be found at a very early date . There is
evidence that wine was made in Britain in Roman times , possibly from grapes
grown ...
Page 524
It is all very opulent , with the final luxury ( almost incredible to English readers )
of central heatingin the 1870's . Matilda is provided with six new frocks all at once
, and two of them silk , and she adores it all ; but is shocked by the appearance ...
It is all very opulent , with the final luxury ( almost incredible to English readers )
of central heatingin the 1870's . Matilda is provided with six new frocks all at once
, and two of them silk , and she adores it all ; but is shocked by the appearance ...
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Contents
The Third Marquess of Salisbury as Empire Builder | 14 |
The Times 19121948 | 23 |
BRITISH CHURCHES AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS RELA | 28 |
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| Title | The Quarterly Review |
| Editors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1953 |
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