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Page xvi
... Already he exhibited the first signs of that Weltschmerz which marked his later years , the tendency to introspection and biting irony . He had no close friends ; he once said that a glass wall separated him from other people . A ...
... Already he exhibited the first signs of that Weltschmerz which marked his later years , the tendency to introspection and biting irony . He had no close friends ; he once said that a glass wall separated him from other people . A ...
Page xvii
... Already a man of firm habits , George could not live without the Manchester Guardian , at that time one of the world's great news- papers . Life was conducted at a leisurely pace during this idyll before the storm . Then in July 1932 ...
... Already a man of firm habits , George could not live without the Manchester Guardian , at that time one of the world's great news- papers . Life was conducted at a leisurely pace during this idyll before the storm . Then in July 1932 ...
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... already impressed casual acquaintances with his absorption in the theme of conflict . We owe a revealing pen - portrait to Siegfried Sassoon — poet , pacifist , and infantry officer — who in 1917 visited Churchill at the Ministry of ...
... already impressed casual acquaintances with his absorption in the theme of conflict . We owe a revealing pen - portrait to Siegfried Sassoon — poet , pacifist , and infantry officer — who in 1917 visited Churchill at the Ministry of ...
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... already min- gled with the first stirrings of Labour as a political force . It is arguable that Churchill at that time abandoned what looked like a sinking ship ; certainly the Tories thought so , and it took them long to forgive him ...
... already min- gled with the first stirrings of Labour as a political force . It is arguable that Churchill at that time abandoned what looked like a sinking ship ; certainly the Tories thought so , and it took them long to forgive him ...
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... already past its zenith but still capable of inspiring nostalgic affection in the reader as well as the author . These writings are Edwardian in tone and to some extent in matter : My Early Life ends in 1908 , when Churchill — a cabinet ...
... already past its zenith but still capable of inspiring nostalgic affection in the reader as well as the author . These writings are Edwardian in tone and to some extent in matter : My Early Life ends in 1908 , when Churchill — a cabinet ...
Contents
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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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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 17 - My dear Winston,' replied the old Victorian statesman, 'the experiences of a long life have convinced me that nothing ever happens.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.