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... - ployments . Race in the negro is of appalling im- portance . The French in Canada , cut off from all intercourse with the parent people , have held their national traits . I chanced to read Tacitus " On 50 ENGLISH TRAITS .
... - ployments . Race in the negro is of appalling im- portance . The French in Canada , cut off from all intercourse with the parent people , have held their national traits . I chanced to read Tacitus " On 50 ENGLISH TRAITS .
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... French say that the Englishwomen have two left hands . But in all ages they are a handsome race . The bronze monuments of crusaders lying cross - legged in the Temple Church at London , and those in Worces- ter and in Salisbury ...
... French say that the Englishwomen have two left hands . But in all ages they are a handsome race . The bronze monuments of crusaders lying cross - legged in the Temple Church at London , and those in Worces- ter and in Salisbury ...
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... French say that Englishmen in the street always walk straight be . fore them like mad dogs . Men and women walk with infatuation . As soon as he can handle a gun , hunting is the fine art of every Englishman of con- dition . They are ...
... French say that Englishmen in the street always walk straight be . fore them like mad dogs . Men and women walk with infatuation . As soon as he can handle a gun , hunting is the fine art of every Englishman of con- dition . They are ...
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... French - Dane arrived , and formally conquered , harried and ruled the kingdom . A century later it came out that the Saxon had the most bottom and longevity , had managed to make the victor speak the language and accept the law and ...
... French - Dane arrived , and formally conquered , harried and ruled the kingdom . A century later it came out that the Saxon had the most bottom and longevity , had managed to make the victor speak the language and accept the law and ...
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... French or Normans as could reach it were naturalized in every sense . All the admirable expedients or means hit upon in England must be looked at as growths or ir- resistible offshoots of the expanding mind of the race . A man of that ...
... French or Normans as could reach it were naturalized in every sense . All the admirable expedients or means hit upon in England must be looked at as growths or ir- resistible offshoots of the expanding mind of the race . A man of that ...
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