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... its civil ordinances are tainted with murder . If enough people join in crime , that crime becomes a revolution ; and every war is an extension of civil revolution , I which , if it be successful , next imposes its OUR ENGLISH HERITAGE.
... its civil ordinances are tainted with murder . If enough people join in crime , that crime becomes a revolution ; and every war is an extension of civil revolution , I which , if it be successful , next imposes its OUR ENGLISH HERITAGE.
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... English court ? of peace , a backwater in the torrential action or a place where saving strength may be regarnered . Here too we have description of the holy English king , Edward the Confessor , and his miraculous powers against - how ...
... English court ? of peace , a backwater in the torrential action or a place where saving strength may be regarnered . Here too we have description of the holy English king , Edward the Confessor , and his miraculous powers against - how ...
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... English nature , as in Pope's Windsor Forest , Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey and The Prelude , and Hardy's Wessex ; and the sea , so powerful in Byron , Wordsworth , and Tennyson . All this is deeply Shakespearian . The Histories are rich ...
... English nature , as in Pope's Windsor Forest , Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey and The Prelude , and Hardy's Wessex ; and the sea , so powerful in Byron , Wordsworth , and Tennyson . All this is deeply Shakespearian . The Histories are rich ...
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OUR ENGLISH HERITAGE | 1 |
ROSES AT WAR | 4 |
SAINT GEORGE FOR ENGLAND | 12 |
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