The Quarterly Review, Volumes 291-292John Murray, 1953 - English literature |
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... never let Foreign Affairs diminish his con- cern for the British Empire , and he still had some im- portant work to do . The recovery of the Sudan was his decision ; he conceived and directed the emancipation of that vast tropical ...
... never let Foreign Affairs diminish his con- cern for the British Empire , and he still had some im- portant work to do . The recovery of the Sudan was his decision ; he conceived and directed the emancipation of that vast tropical ...
Page 494
... never had it entered the mind of man that the old Great Eastern would ever be a serious competitor for it , and much less that it could ever win it . Yet so it has happened ; and this not with just one very special star - turn train a ...
... never had it entered the mind of man that the old Great Eastern would ever be a serious competitor for it , and much less that it could ever win it . Yet so it has happened ; and this not with just one very special star - turn train a ...
Page 495
... never soulless and impersonal . It had lots of character . It bred in its servants a high degree of loyalty and they never left it gladly . Shortly after the amalgamation of 1923 , when it became a very junior part of the L.N.E.R. , I ...
... never soulless and impersonal . It had lots of character . It bred in its servants a high degree of loyalty and they never left it gladly . Shortly after the amalgamation of 1923 , when it became a very junior part of the L.N.E.R. , I ...
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