Modern Eloquence, Volume 8Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh John D. Morris, 1900 |
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... England has been ruled by several different groups. Ancient tribes were the first people to settle there. Then came people from Rome and other parts of Europe. All these different cultures shaped England into the land it is today ...
... England has been ruled by several different groups. Ancient tribes were the first people to settle there. Then came people from Rome and other parts of Europe. All these different cultures shaped England into the land it is today ...
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... England and Britain were once considered almost synonymous. If you met a compatriot abroad he was English unless he told you forcefully he wasn't. Until the late twentieth century 'United Kingdom' was reserved for the most formal ...
... England and Britain were once considered almost synonymous. If you met a compatriot abroad he was English unless he told you forcefully he wasn't. Until the late twentieth century 'United Kingdom' was reserved for the most formal ...
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... England's centroid, the point at which a cardboard cutout of England would balance perfectly on the tip of a pencil. This sounds silly except that the complex maths for the claim were carried out by the cartographers at Ordnance Survey ...
... England's centroid, the point at which a cardboard cutout of England would balance perfectly on the tip of a pencil. This sounds silly except that the complex maths for the claim were carried out by the cartographers at Ordnance Survey ...
Contents
VOLUME VIII | 399 |
ELIOT CHARLES WILLIAM | 413 |
EMERSON RALPH WALDO | 419 |
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