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THE CENTURY DICTIONARY

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BUILDERS OF GREATER BRITAIN

EDITED BY
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The completion of the Sixtieth year of the Queen’s reign will be the occasion of much retrospect and review, in the course of which the great men who, under the auspices of Her Majesty and her predecessors, have helped to make the British Empire what it is to-day, will naturally be brought to mind. Hence the idea of the present series. These biographies, concise but full, popular but authoritative, have been designed with the view of giving in each case an adequate picture of the builder in relation to his work.

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The Series has taken for its motto the Miltonic prayer:—

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THE STORY OF THE NATIONS

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THE COURTSHIPS OF QUEEN ELIZABETH

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THE YEAR AFTER THE ARMADA

AND OTHER HISTORICAL STUDIES

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SIR WALTER RALEGH

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