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MEN WHO HAVE MADE THE EMPIRE
BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
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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