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... destiny , asserted by our own time - honoured national symbol , Saint George , the dragon - slayer , whose name our present sovereign bears ; and we should first search out that destiny not in platitudes of half - belief nor any ...
... destiny , asserted by our own time - honoured national symbol , Saint George , the dragon - slayer , whose name our present sovereign bears ; and we should first search out that destiny not in platitudes of half - belief nor any ...
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... destiny ; and when our reformers speak with such an accent , urging the wrongs of big business in words of that royal calibre , or take such a speech as this for their text , men will listen with a new keenness . Our ' left ' thinking ...
... destiny ; and when our reformers speak with such an accent , urging the wrongs of big business in words of that royal calibre , or take such a speech as this for their text , men will listen with a new keenness . Our ' left ' thinking ...
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... destiny which its best leaders themselves do not always understand ; and many an action of minister or party raising sharpest criticism may also be felt as working within , and as part of , a whole not to be subjected to a facile ...
... destiny which its best leaders themselves do not always understand ; and many an action of minister or party raising sharpest criticism may also be felt as working within , and as part of , a whole not to be subjected to a facile ...
Contents
OUR ENGLISH HERITAGE | 1 |
ROSES AT WAR | 4 |
SAINT GEORGE FOR ENGLAND | 12 |
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