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“Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters.”

Needs Should Water Hours England Thee Stagnant Milton Stagnant Water

Author:William Wordsworth

“England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland.”

Wells May Water Freedom Steps Land Proud Mountain England Firm Magnificent Scotland Couches Switzerland Dams Fetters Nile

Author:Lydia M. Child

“The sea has formed the English character and the essential England is to be found in those who follow it. From blue waters they have learned mercifulness, and they have also learned - in the grimmest of schools - precision and resolution. The sea endures no makeshifts. If a thing is not exactly right it will be vastly wrong.”

Ifs Character School Found Water Sea Essentials England Blue Endure Resolution Precision Blue Water

Book:Nelson's History of the war

Source: Nelson's History of the war

“The country (England) which was called a nation of pirates in the years around 1600 would eventually become the pirates' greatest scourge, not just in English waters but throughout the world.”

World Years Country Nations Water England Pirate Scourge

Author:Peter Earle

“There is some evidence that average wave heights are slowly rising, and that freak waves of eighty or ninety feet are becoming more common. Wave heights off the coast of England have risen an average of 25 percent over the past couple of decades, which converts to a twenty-foot increase in the highest waves over the next half century. One cause may be the tightening of environmental laws, which has reduced the amount of oil flushed into the oceans by oil tankers.”

“...was treading on dangerous water there... (on Phil Neville)”

Water Dangerous England Treading

Author:Ron Atkinson

“This because it is never really very cold in England. It is drizzly, and the wind will blow; hail happens, and there is a breed of Tuesday in January in which time creeps and no light comes and the air is full of water and nobody really loves anybody, but still a decent jumper and a waxen jacket lined with wool is sufficient for every weather England's got to give.”

Giving Stills Light Happens Water Air Wind Cold England Blow Weather Sufficient Decent Jackets Creeps January Hail Tuesday Wool Jumpers

Book:On Beauty

Source: On Beauty

“Coffee as drunk in England, debilitates the stomach, and produces a slight nausea ... it is usually made from bad Coffee, served out tepid and muddy, and drowned in a deluge of water.”

Made Water Produce England Coffee Drunk Stomach Muddy Nausea Deluge Great Coffee

Book:The Cook's Oracle: And Housekeeper's Manual. Containing Receipts for Cookery, and Directions for Carving ... with a Complete System of Cookery for Catholic Families ... Being the Result of Actual Experiments Instituted in the Kitchen of William Kitchiner

Source: The Cook's Oracle: And Housekeeper's Manual. Containing Receipts for Cookery, and Directions for Carving ... with a Complete System of Cookery for Catholic Families ... Being the Result of Actual Experiments Instituted in the Kitchen of William Kitchiner

“The valuable properties of this cement depend in a great measure on the mode of preparing it for use. The mixing should therefore be conducted with care in order to form a perfect union of the powdered cement, sand and water. This can be best accomplished by the use of the New England corn hoe on a board floor or by beating with a hand stamper; not much labour is required if properly applied. Mechanics can judge when the mixture is perfect by the appearance of the mortar, which, when properly prepared, very much resembles putty.”

“England [sic] is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn't make things that people in the rest of the world want to buy. And if it hadn't been separated from the continent by water, it almost certainly would have been lost to Hitler's ambitions.”

People Ifs World Want Has Beens House Lost Water Ambition England Islands Exception Continents

Author:Mitt Romney

“The depressing thing about an Englishman's traditional love of animals is the dishonesty thereof ... Get a barbed hook into the upper lip of a salmon, drag him endlessly around the water until he loses his strength, pull him to the bank, hit him on the head with a stone, and you may well become fisherman of the year. Shoot.the salmon and you'll never be asked again.”

Years Wells May Water Loses Animal Stones England Lips Traditional Drag Depressing Hook Dishonesty Englishmen Insulting Fisherman Salmon

Author:Clement Freud

“Continental people have a sex life; the English have hot-water bottles.”

People Funny Sex Water England Hot Bottles Insulting Hot Water Continental Water Bottles

Author:George Mikes