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... Germany appears deliberately to have fostered and used the beast within man , while dark presences , like the Weird Women in Shakespeare's Macbeth , have attended the adventure , lending it , for a while , their aid . But have we , on ...
... Germany appears deliberately to have fostered and used the beast within man , while dark presences , like the Weird Women in Shakespeare's Macbeth , have attended the adventure , lending it , for a while , their aid . But have we , on ...
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... German challenge exceeds any purely national assertion and is far closer to world - revolution , attacking the root ... Germany grew more menacing , it inevitably fell to Great Britain , as a nation , and not to communism , democracy ...
... German challenge exceeds any purely national assertion and is far closer to world - revolution , attacking the root ... Germany grew more menacing , it inevitably fell to Great Britain , as a nation , and not to communism , democracy ...
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... Germany cannot , search within our own literature for authoritative inspira- tion and re - infection with that virus we so sorely need . True , Shakespeare is probably more widely loved in Germany than in England ; and I confess that ...
... Germany cannot , search within our own literature for authoritative inspira- tion and re - infection with that virus we so sorely need . True , Shakespeare is probably more widely loved in Germany than in England ; and I confess that ...
Contents
OUR ENGLISH HERITAGE | 1 |
ROSES AT WAR | 4 |
SAINT GEORGE FOR ENGLAND | 12 |
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