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... possible standards of intel- lectual rigor and cogency , and by his unique combination of corro- sive wit , skepticism , and the irrepressible delight he took in the powers of the critical intelligence to explain and interpret the ...
... possible standards of intel- lectual rigor and cogency , and by his unique combination of corro- sive wit , skepticism , and the irrepressible delight he took in the powers of the critical intelligence to explain and interpret the ...
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... possible for a man to recover his lost position . He may recover another position in the fifties or sixties , but not the one he lost in the thirties or for- ties . To hold the leadership of a party or nation with dignity and authority ...
... possible for a man to recover his lost position . He may recover another position in the fifties or sixties , but not the one he lost in the thirties or for- ties . To hold the leadership of a party or nation with dignity and authority ...
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... possible , though with some reser- vations , to class Churchill as a modern representative of the Whig tradition , at least in one of his aspects . Such as it is , the tradition cannot possibly survive his departure , even in the ...
... possible , though with some reser- vations , to class Churchill as a modern representative of the Whig tradition , at least in one of his aspects . Such as it is , the tradition cannot possibly survive his departure , even in the ...
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... possible for Parliament to remain the focus of the national life , though the standard of debate tended to decline . Churchill himself is evidently in two minds about the impact of mass democracy upon parliamentary government . In 1930 ...
... possible for Parliament to remain the focus of the national life , though the standard of debate tended to decline . Churchill himself is evidently in two minds about the impact of mass democracy upon parliamentary government . In 1930 ...
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... possible to class him with that select fraternity — the political thinker ? It is well known that his general education was spotty . At school he was considered a dunce , and by his own account never managed to memorize a word of Greek ...
... possible to class him with that select fraternity — the political thinker ? It is well known that his general education was spotty . At school he was considered a dunce , and by his own account never managed to memorize a word of Greek ...
Índice
3 | |
V | 29 |
VI | 53 |
VII | 69 |
VIII | 83 |
IX | 90 |
X | 96 |
XI | 104 |
XXX | 234 |
XXXI | 247 |
XXXII | 255 |
XXXIII | 257 |
XXXIV | 275 |
XXXVI | 294 |
XXXVII | 300 |
XXXVIII | 309 |
XII | 111 |
XIII | 115 |
XIV | 117 |
XV | 128 |
XVI | 134 |
XVII | 150 |
XVIII | 156 |
XIX | 163 |
XX | 173 |
XXI | 175 |
XXII | 192 |
XXIII | 200 |
XXIV | 206 |
XXV | 213 |
XXVI | 218 |
XXVII | 221 |
XXVIII | 223 |
XXIX | 229 |
XXXIX | 316 |
XL | 330 |
XLI | 335 |
XLII | 337 |
XLIII | 348 |
XLIV | 355 |
XLV | 368 |
XLVI | 394 |
XLVII | 406 |
XLVIII | 411 |
XLIX | 413 |
L | 458 |
LI | 477 |
LII | 483 |
LIII | 486 |
LIV | 490 |
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 76 - That the established Government has no more right to call itself the State than the smoke of London has to call itself the weather. That we had rather face a Civil War than such another century of suffering as the present one has been.
Página 7 - No truce or parley mitigated the strife of the armies. The wounded died between the lines: the dead mouldered into the soil. Merchant ships and neutral ships and hospital ships were sunk on the seas and all on board left to their fate, or killed as they swam. Every effort was made to starve whole nations into submission without regard to age or sex.
Página 17 - My dear Winston,' replied the old Victorian statesman, 'the experiences of a long life have convinced me that nothing ever happens.
Página 138 - With some over-simplification, one might thus say that 'classes' are stratified according to their relations to the production and acquisition of goods; whereas 'status groups' are stratified according to the principles of their consumption of goods as represented by special 'styles of life.
Página 107 - Having been an Imperialist, I became during those five minutes a pro-Boer and a Pacifist. Having for years cared only for exactness and analysis, I found myself filled with semimystical feelings about beauty, with an intense interest in children, and with a desire almost as profound as that of the Buddha to find some philosophy which should make human life endurable.
Página 18 - The leading figures of Society were in many cases the leading statesmen in Parliament, and also the leading sportsmen on the Turf. Lord Salisbury was accustomed scrupulously to avoid calling a Cabinet when there was racing at Newmarket, and the House of Commons made a practice of adjourning for the Derby.