Hubert Hervey, Student and Imperialist: A MemoirE. Arnold, 1899 - 151 pàgines |
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... COMPANY'S OFFICE IV . EN ROUTE FOR THE FRONTIER • V. THE MATABELE WAR VI . AT WORK UNDER JAMESON VII . THE SECOND MATABELE WAR VIII . THE LAST FIGHT • • APPENDIX . 147 ILLUSTRATIONS PORTRAIT OF HUBERT HERVEY • MEMORIAL BRONZE IN ...
... COMPANY'S OFFICE IV . EN ROUTE FOR THE FRONTIER • V. THE MATABELE WAR VI . AT WORK UNDER JAMESON VII . THE SECOND MATABELE WAR VIII . THE LAST FIGHT • • APPENDIX . 147 ILLUSTRATIONS PORTRAIT OF HUBERT HERVEY • MEMORIAL BRONZE IN ...
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... company with him . The tutor improved for a short time , but , breaking out again , he was promptly dismissed by young Hervey , who wrote home to his parents to tell them what he had done . At Dresden he worked hard for over a year ...
... company with him . The tutor improved for a short time , but , breaking out again , he was promptly dismissed by young Hervey , who wrote home to his parents to tell them what he had done . At Dresden he worked hard for over a year ...
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... Company in January , 1891 , 1891 , his life was uneventful . He devoted some portion of his leisure to society . He used to say that the necessity of making conversation to people who did not interest him was ' like working on an empty ...
... Company in January , 1891 , 1891 , his life was uneventful . He devoted some portion of his leisure to society . He used to say that the necessity of making conversation to people who did not interest him was ' like working on an empty ...
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... great must have been the sacrifice , how real the patriotism , when Hervey accepted at thirty - one years of age a subordinate place in the Transfer Department of the British South Africa Company , and DREAMS IN LONDON 36.
... great must have been the sacrifice , how real the patriotism , when Hervey accepted at thirty - one years of age a subordinate place in the Transfer Department of the British South Africa Company , and DREAMS IN LONDON 36.
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... Company , and devoted his daily energies for nearly two years to the uncongenial work of checking transfers of share certificates in a dark room on the basement floor of an office in the City . CHAPTER III IN THE CHARTERED COMPANY'S ...
... Company , and devoted his daily energies for nearly two years to the uncongenial work of checking transfers of share certificates in a dark room on the basement floor of an office in the City . CHAPTER III IN THE CHARTERED COMPANY'S ...
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Pàgina 56 - Probably everyone would agree that an Englishman would be right in considering his way of looking at the world and at life better than that of the Maori or...
Pàgina 58 - More especially must the difficulty caused by the absence of a generally recognised standard of justice be felt in the case of contact between civilized and uncivilized races. Is there any likelihood of the gulf between the white and the black man being bridged within any period of time that we can foresee ? Can there be any doubt that the white man must, and will, impose his superior civilization on the coloured races...
Pàgina 56 - In so far as an Englishman differs in essentials from a Swede or Belgian, he believes that he represents a more perfectly developed standard of general excellence. . . . Yes, and even those nations nearest to us in mind and sentiment — • German and Scandinavian — we regard on the whole as not so excellent as ourselves, comparing their typical characteristics with ours.