The Living Age, Volume 242Living Age Company, 1904 |
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... never tired of pointing out that practically all the battleships and cruis- ers , and far the greater proportion of the torpedo craft , had been built abroad , and built , moreover , in SO short a time that it was almost impos- sible ...
... never tired of pointing out that practically all the battleships and cruis- ers , and far the greater proportion of the torpedo craft , had been built abroad , and built , moreover , in SO short a time that it was almost impos- sible ...
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... never went beyond a certain figure , which was considerably less than ru- mor credits certain English , French and American artists with getting for their work . He told me that he dis- liked asking what he considered to be an excessive ...
... never went beyond a certain figure , which was considerably less than ru- mor credits certain English , French and American artists with getting for their work . He told me that he dis- liked asking what he considered to be an excessive ...
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... never disguised his well - grounded contempt for Brough- am's mischievous policy . To Lord Lyndhurst's conversation Gleig does full justice , though he might , as we have said , have dealt more amiably with his character . On the other ...
... never disguised his well - grounded contempt for Brough- am's mischievous policy . To Lord Lyndhurst's conversation Gleig does full justice , though he might , as we have said , have dealt more amiably with his character . On the other ...
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... never frittered his time or his wits upon such vain and pleasant pursuits as could only prove a hindrance to his career . He was a soldier first , then a statesman ; but he was never a dilet- tante , and literature exercised no claim ...
... never frittered his time or his wits upon such vain and pleasant pursuits as could only prove a hindrance to his career . He was a soldier first , then a statesman ; but he was never a dilet- tante , and literature exercised no claim ...
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... never again intrusted the payment of his bills to any hand ex- cept his own , and kept his cellar low in order that ... never fell short of the occasion ; he always sacrificed himself to the public good ; and never in a long career did ...
... never again intrusted the payment of his bills to any hand ex- cept his own , and kept his cellar low in order that ... never fell short of the occasion ; he always sacrificed himself to the public good ; and never in a long career did ...
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