Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 257William Blackwood, 1945 - England |
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Page 98
... English , had it not ? and there was a famous medical university at Edinburgh where the native children were taught to be doctors . The rest of Scotland he thought was wild and inhabited by a semi - savage race rather like the Albanians ...
... English , had it not ? and there was a famous medical university at Edinburgh where the native children were taught to be doctors . The rest of Scotland he thought was wild and inhabited by a semi - savage race rather like the Albanians ...
Page 136
... English ' Canadian who has lived his life in a French Canadian province and among French ' Canadians . It is a common English mistake , he says , to suppose that English and French Canadians are the same save for speaking different ...
... English ' Canadian who has lived his life in a French Canadian province and among French ' Canadians . It is a common English mistake , he says , to suppose that English and French Canadians are the same save for speaking different ...
Page 218
... English people . Not that the English have ever desired a spineless nonentity or stained- glass saint to be their ruler . Their point of view was put to me by an old farm labourer in whose company " Ole I was drinking a pint of beer ...
... English people . Not that the English have ever desired a spineless nonentity or stained- glass saint to be their ruler . Their point of view was put to me by an old farm labourer in whose company " Ole I was drinking a pint of beer ...
Contents
A COLONEL OF THE FRONTIER FORCE BY LIEUT COLONEL | 73 |
AN INFANTRY OFFICER WITH THE EIGHTH ARMYI XII | 91 |
SIC TRANSIT BY A M G | 108 |
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