The National ReviewW.H. Allen, 1910 - Great Britain |
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It has never been explained by any of the numerous pens at the disposal of Sir John Fisher , why the First Sea Lord ever assented to the appointment of Lord Charles Beresford to a position for which he was totally unfitted , judging by ...
It has never been explained by any of the numerous pens at the disposal of Sir John Fisher , why the First Sea Lord ever assented to the appointment of Lord Charles Beresford to a position for which he was totally unfitted , judging by ...
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that a hereditary House should in these enlightened days assert themselves as they had never previously done , the Westminster Gazette conveniently forgetting that never before , in what is called “ a time of profound peace , " have the ...
that a hereditary House should in these enlightened days assert themselves as they had never previously done , the Westminster Gazette conveniently forgetting that never before , in what is called “ a time of profound peace , " have the ...
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... which will inflict infinitely more harm on the Government than on the Opposition . England has never been ruled by demagogues or by demonstrations , but by the quiet people who stay at home and form their own conclusions .
... which will inflict infinitely more harm on the Government than on the Opposition . England has never been ruled by demagogues or by demonstrations , but by the quiet people who stay at home and form their own conclusions .
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... as it actually exists , and above all to his conclusion that “ political art will never be able to transform party conflicts , however subtly conducted , into a device for making partisanship perform the functions of patriotism .
... as it actually exists , and above all to his conclusion that “ political art will never be able to transform party conflicts , however subtly conducted , into a device for making partisanship perform the functions of patriotism .
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A more admirable exponent of Conservatism , in the defensive sense of the word , than the late Lord Salisbury never led the Party . It was the greatest of intellectual enjoyments to listen to the lucid statements of policy in which he ...
A more admirable exponent of Conservatism , in the defensive sense of the word , than the late Lord Salisbury never led the Party . It was the greatest of intellectual enjoyments to listen to the lucid statements of policy in which he ...
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