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... individual seemed therefore of limited use to a student of history . Furthermore , George's Jerusalem friends had demonstrated in countless conversations that in history the economic base was often of little help in explaining the ...
... individual seemed therefore of limited use to a student of history . Furthermore , George's Jerusalem friends had demonstrated in countless conversations that in history the economic base was often of little help in explaining the ...
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... individual achievements , not only in the mechanisms of warfare , but in spheres of social progress . The present war , he asserted , had brought about inventive discoveries which would ameliorate the condition of mankind . For example ...
... individual achievements , not only in the mechanisms of warfare , but in spheres of social progress . The present war , he asserted , had brought about inventive discoveries which would ameliorate the condition of mankind . For example ...
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... individual freedom , and parliamentary government ( or the American equivalent thereof ) ; to which , if he felt able to do so , he would probably add free trade , a principle to which he has clung with quixotic devotion throughout a ...
... individual freedom , and parliamentary government ( or the American equivalent thereof ) ; to which , if he felt able to do so , he would probably add free trade , a principle to which he has clung with quixotic devotion throughout a ...
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... individuals or nations but in humanity as a whole , the prevention of the supreme catastrophe ought to be the paramount object of all endeavor . " The Churchill of 1925 is a convinced supporter of the League of Nations , a Wellsian ...
... individuals or nations but in humanity as a whole , the prevention of the supreme catastrophe ought to be the paramount object of all endeavor . " The Churchill of 1925 is a convinced supporter of the League of Nations , a Wellsian ...
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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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Thoughts Among the Ruins: Collected Essays on Europe and Beyond George Lichtheim Sin vista previa disponible - 1973 |
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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.