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The health and existence of the whole community is dependent upon the performance by every one of his proper duties ; and the community is entitled to prevent as far as possible any abdication of those duties , when such abdication is ...
The health and existence of the whole community is dependent upon the performance by every one of his proper duties ; and the community is entitled to prevent as far as possible any abdication of those duties , when such abdication is ...
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We do not see in aircraft the latest safeguard of national existence ; we see in it a new sport , a new amusement , an excuse for motoring to Brooklands , or for spending a summer's day beside the Thames , as thousands of Londoners did ...
We do not see in aircraft the latest safeguard of national existence ; we see in it a new sport , a new amusement , an excuse for motoring to Brooklands , or for spending a summer's day beside the Thames , as thousands of Londoners did ...
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Our naval power involves British existence . It is existence to us ; it is expansion to them . We cannot menace the peace of a single Continental hamlet , nor do we wish to do so , no matter how great and supreme our Navy may become .
Our naval power involves British existence . It is existence to us ; it is expansion to them . We cannot menace the peace of a single Continental hamlet , nor do we wish to do so , no matter how great and supreme our Navy may become .
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Constable and Co 1908 | 31 |
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