The Cambridge History of the British Empire: pt. 1. Australia; advisor Ernest ScottArthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians Cambridge University Press, 1933 - Commonwealth of Nations |
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... English nations have taken place almost within living memory . Here are no offshoots of Stuart and early Hanoverian England , but of that Victorian England now just passing from our sight . Living men may well remember the squatter ...
... English nations have taken place almost within living memory . Here are no offshoots of Stuart and early Hanoverian England , but of that Victorian England now just passing from our sight . Living men may well remember the squatter ...
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... English import duties on wool had been reduced from sixpence to the nominal figure of a penny a pound , and a further natural protection was afforded by the decline in the quality of English " downs " wool , the nearest in character to ...
... English import duties on wool had been reduced from sixpence to the nominal figure of a penny a pound , and a further natural protection was afforded by the decline in the quality of English " downs " wool , the nearest in character to ...
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... English public schools . Most of the headmasters , and a fair pro- portion of the assistant masters , are old English public school boys , and they have helped to maintain the English public school traditions of loyalty , truthfulness ...
... English public schools . Most of the headmasters , and a fair pro- portion of the assistant masters , are old English public school boys , and they have helped to maintain the English public school traditions of loyalty , truthfulness ...
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