When age fell upon the world, and wonder went out of the minds of men; when grey cities reared to smoky skies tall towers grim and ugly, in whose shadow none might dream of the sun or of spring’s flowering meads; when learning stripped
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“John Churchill, soon Duke of Marlborough, was a rare phenomenon: a brilliant English general. He”
― The English and Their History
― The English and Their History
“nor is public happiness to be estimated by the assemblies of the gay or the banquets of the rich. The great mass of nations is neither rich nor gay: they”
― The English and Their History
― The English and Their History
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