Men Who Have Made the Empire

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MEN WHO HAVE MADE THE EMPIRE

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London
C. ARTHUR PEARSON LIMITED

“ALMIGHTY GOD, OF THY GOODNESS, GIVE ME LIFE AND LEAVE ONCE TO SAIL AN ENGLISH SHIP ON YONDER SEA!”

(See page 54.)

Frontispiece.

Men who have
Made the Empire

BY
GEORGE GRIFFITH

THIRD EDITION

London
C. ARTHUR PEARSON LIMITED
HENRIETTA STREET, W.C.
1899

To
THE GLORIOUS MEMORY
OF
THE MIGHTY DEAD
AND TO
THE HONOUR OF THE LIVING
WHO ARE
CARRYING ON THEIR NOBLE WORK,
THE FOLLOWING PAGES
ARE INSCRIBED.

“Fair is our lot—O goodly is our heritage!

(Humble ye, my people, and be fearful in your mirth!)

For the Lord our God Most High

He hath made the deep as dry,

He hath smote for us a pathway to the ends of all the earth!”

A Song of the English

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MEN WHO HAVE MADE THE EMPIRE

E-text prepared by Tim Lindell, Charlie Howard,
and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
(http://www.pgdp.net)
from page images generously made available by
Internet Archive
(https://archive.org)