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The Chinese called them the Pyu , but the Mon people knew of them as the Tircul ( Luce 1985 ) . The Pyu civilisation developed in the dry zone of central Burma between about 200 BC and AD 900. It is best known on the basis of three ...
The Chinese called them the Pyu , but the Mon people knew of them as the Tircul ( Luce 1985 ) . The Pyu civilisation developed in the dry zone of central Burma between about 200 BC and AD 900. It is best known on the basis of three ...
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That this imperial nationstate , this ' Greater Britain ' as Seeley called it , was strung across the globe and divided by the oceans mattered not at all . Greater Britain was ' a worldwide Venice , with the sea for streets ' .
That this imperial nationstate , this ' Greater Britain ' as Seeley called it , was strung across the globe and divided by the oceans mattered not at all . Greater Britain was ' a worldwide Venice , with the sea for streets ' .
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32 Valéry never stopped dreaming of what he called a politique de l'esprit , but he knew that he was only dreaming : ' The two forms of power may well be incommensurable quantities ; and it is no doubt necessary that they should be so .
32 Valéry never stopped dreaming of what he called a politique de l'esprit , but he knew that he was only dreaming : ' The two forms of power may well be incommensurable quantities ; and it is no doubt necessary that they should be so .
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| Title | Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 121 Proceedings of the British Academy, British Academy, ISSN 0068-1202 |
| Author | British Academy |
| Publisher | British Academy |
| Original from | University of California, Berkeley |
| Digitized | 3 Oct 2018 |
| ISBN | 0197263038, 9780197263037 |
| Length | 314 pages |
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