...a few graphic touches — how trade increased and riches flowed in from every quarter. " Fools that we were ! We thought that all this wealth and prosperity...world ; and that if other nations stopped sending us raw goods to work up we could not produce them ourselves." The war was precipitated by the blustering...

...new schools with their four or five hundred boys were springing up all over the country. Fools that we were ! We thought that all this wealth and prosperity...world ; and that if other nations stopped sending us raw goods to work up, we could not produce them ourselves. True, we had in those days an advantage...

...bring blushes to the face of every Englishman. This sentence illustrates the spirit of the work : " In our blindness we did not see that we were merely a big workshop, making up the things which come from all parts of the world; and that if other nations stopped sending us raw goods to work up,...

...new schools with their four or five hundred boys were springing up all over the country. Fools that we were ! We thought that all this wealth and prosperity...the world; and that if other nations stopped sending us raw goods to work up, we could not produce them ourselves. True, we had in those days an advantage...

...new schools with their four or five hundred boys were springing up all over the country. Fools that we were ! We thought that all this wealth and prosperity...merely a big workshop, making up the things which camo '.torn all parts of the world ; and that if other nations stopped sending us raw goods to work...

...Battle of Dorking," 1871. The following lines are fraught with meaning and truth : — " Fools that we were ! We thought that all this wealth and prosperity were sent ns by Providence, and could not stop coming. In our blindness we did not see that wo were merely a...

...Battle of Dorking, teeming as it does with the prophetic instinct of a far-seeing mind:— "Fools that we were! We thought that all this wealth and prosperity...the world, and that if other nations stopped sending us raw goods to work up, we could not produce them ourselves. True, we had in those days an advantage...

...new schools with their four or five hundred boys were springing up all over the country. Fools that we were ! We thought that all this wealth and prosperity...world ; and that if other nations stopped sending us raw goods to work up, we could not produce them ourselves. True, we had in those days an advantage...

...the colonies. The narrator explains from the perspective of fifty years later that Britons foolishly "thought that all this wealth and prosperity were sent us by Providence," and ignored the "plain warning" of the fate of its "neighbours."44 Comparatively few names are given here,...

...In our blindness we did not see that we were merely a big workshop, making up the things which come from all parts of the world ; and that if other nations stopped sending us raw goods to work up, we could not produce them ourselves." [GP Putnam &. Sons.] _ — Oliver Optic's...