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...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H... ...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn... ...n State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University.... ...lication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ets for a quicker adversary. Well, is there any reason to suppose that our Navy is going to keep above the general national level in these things? Is ... ... is going to keep above the general national level in these things? Is the Navy bright? The arrival of M. Blériot suggests most horribly to me how far... ...exhorted this island to “wake up” in one of the most remarkable of British royal utterances, and Mr. Owen Seaman assures him in verse of an altogether... ...o were drowned? Shall we give him an hour or so among the portraits at the Royal Academy, or shall we make an enthusiastic tour of London sculpture an... ...r, there will be some tremendous business with guns and torpedoes, and our admirals will re- turn victorious to discuss the discipline and details of ...

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