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Page 137
... British against the Boers at the time of the South African war , because the Boers represented for him a backward civilization and the British a progressive one . When the civilizing forces of the various nations had finally collided in ...
... British against the Boers at the time of the South African war , because the Boers represented for him a backward civilization and the British a progressive one . When the civilizing forces of the various nations had finally collided in ...
Page 138
... British slum to be cleared and rebuilt or a hungry , ragged and ignorant British child to be fed , clothed and educated . " This sounds spirited enough by itself , yet the bur- den of Common Sense About the War is that the war must be ...
... British slum to be cleared and rebuilt or a hungry , ragged and ignorant British child to be fed , clothed and educated . " This sounds spirited enough by itself , yet the bur- den of Common Sense About the War is that the war must be ...
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... British dramatists for a long time found it impossible to get a theater in Lon- don for On the Rocks . Shaw's most recent pieces are weaker . The Simple- ton of the Unexpected Isles ( 1934 ) is the only play of the author's which has ...
... British dramatists for a long time found it impossible to get a theater in Lon- don for On the Rocks . Shaw's most recent pieces are weaker . The Simple- ton of the Unexpected Isles ( 1934 ) is the only play of the author's which has ...
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