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Conscious of having no personal ambition beyond that of high office , Lord Grey succeeded in impressing his countrymen with his good intentions , and he was able to make , without loss of prestige , the appalling mistakes of judgment ...
Conscious of having no personal ambition beyond that of high office , Lord Grey succeeded in impressing his countrymen with his good intentions , and he was able to make , without loss of prestige , the appalling mistakes of judgment ...
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All three offices had warned the Government not only of the coming war , but of its actual date . But what a fatal weakness for a public man in a time of national crisis to lie awake going over old mistakes to and trying to get the ...
All three offices had warned the Government not only of the coming war , but of its actual date . But what a fatal weakness for a public man in a time of national crisis to lie awake going over old mistakes to and trying to get the ...
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“ I ” opened the ball by shouting loudly for a whisky and soda , another gross libel , for I do not drink whisky in the office in the morning ; but in Sudanese plays the British officer invariably shouts for a whisky and soda directly ...
“ I ” opened the ball by shouting loudly for a whisky and soda , another gross libel , for I do not drink whisky in the office in the morning ; but in Sudanese plays the British officer invariably shouts for a whisky and soda directly ...
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ISODES OF THE MONTH | 269 |
PHTHARS DAUGHTER By lan Colvin | 401 |
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