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... half understand the present , for each age is a chrysalis , and we are ignorant into what it may develop . We do not even try to understand it PAST AND PRESENT 13 honestly , for we shut our 12 THE ENGLISH IN THE WEST INDIES.
... half understand the present , for each age is a chrysalis , and we are ignorant into what it may develop . We do not even try to understand it PAST AND PRESENT 13 honestly , for we shut our 12 THE ENGLISH IN THE WEST INDIES.
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... half the country , and Mr. Gladstone himself applauds or refuses to condemn acts of open dishonesty . We are to congratulate ourselves that duelling has ceased , but I do not know that men act more honourably because they can be called ...
... half the country , and Mr. Gladstone himself applauds or refuses to condemn acts of open dishonesty . We are to congratulate ourselves that duelling has ceased , but I do not know that men act more honourably because they can be called ...
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... half the company to their berths . On the fourth morning the wind chopped back to the north - west . A beam sea set in , and the Moselle ' justified my conjectures A STORM AT SEA 21 about her . She rolled 20 THE ENGLISH IN THE WEST INDIES.
... half the company to their berths . On the fourth morning the wind chopped back to the north - west . A beam sea set in , and the Moselle ' justified my conjectures A STORM AT SEA 21 about her . She rolled 20 THE ENGLISH IN THE WEST INDIES.
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... Half the French fleet were either taken or sunk ; the rest crawled away for the time , most of them to be picked up afterwards like crippled birds . 6 So on that memorable day was the English Empire saved . Peace followed , but it was ...
... Half the French fleet were either taken or sunk ; the rest crawled away for the time , most of them to be picked up afterwards like crippled birds . 6 So on that memorable day was the English Empire saved . Peace followed , but it was ...
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... half , and finally , after many desperate struggles for it , was ceded to England at the peace of Versailles . It is larger than St. Vincent , though in its main features it has the same character . There are lakes in the hills , and a ...
... half , and finally , after many desperate struggles for it , was ceded to England at the peace of Versailles . It is larger than St. Vincent , though in its main features it has the same character . There are lakes in the hills , and a ...
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