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Página xxi
... represented . Scanning his journalistic writings during the postwar decade one is struck in retrospect by the multitude of exceedingly astute com- ments , and a number of truly astounding foresights : on the emer- gent character of the ...
... represented . Scanning his journalistic writings during the postwar decade one is struck in retrospect by the multitude of exceedingly astute com- ments , and a number of truly astounding foresights : on the emer- gent character of the ...
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... represented to the nation what it needed and desired . He set- tled down heavily to a long steady reign . Naturally he was glad to have the whole power in his own hands , instead of dividing it with a restless rival , entrenched in the ...
... represented to the nation what it needed and desired . He set- tled down heavily to a long steady reign . Naturally he was glad to have the whole power in his own hands , instead of dividing it with a restless rival , entrenched in the ...
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... not really belong in their company , though for some years he did his best to sound like one of them . He certainly went out of his way to madden the Tories by representing them to the voters as 10 THERE'LL ALWAYS BE AN ENGLAND.
... not really belong in their company , though for some years he did his best to sound like one of them . He certainly went out of his way to madden the Tories by representing them to the voters as 10 THERE'LL ALWAYS BE AN ENGLAND.
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Collected Essays on Europe and Beyond George Lichtheim. madden the Tories by representing them to the voters as the party of reaction and corruption , dispensing " patriotism by the bucket- ful " while extending " the open hand at the ...
Collected Essays on Europe and Beyond George Lichtheim. madden the Tories by representing them to the voters as the party of reaction and corruption , dispensing " patriotism by the bucket- ful " while extending " the open hand at the ...
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... representing , as it were , the Whig strand in his makeup — there runs a powerful strain of insular egotism which relates him to the conservative side of the national tradition . What has happened to the world since 16 THERE'LL ALWAYS ...
... representing , as it were , the Whig strand in his makeup — there runs a powerful strain of insular egotism which relates him to the conservative side of the national tradition . What has happened to the world since 16 THERE'LL ALWAYS ...
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.