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Chapter 12 比較の一般問題

例題 12.1.2

誰が何と言おうと、イングランドは「詩人の国」。

It has so often been said that the English (though not the Scots, the Welsh, or the Irish) are an inartistic and unimaginative people, that the English have themselves come to believe the accusation. They are told that they have no vision, that they are more concerned about their pockets than about their minds and souls. Since they are a modest and a docile people, full of self-distrust and slow to give offence, it seldom occurs to them to point out that the English have had not only the greatest poet of all time but also more great poets than all other countries put together .

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Philip Carr, "The English are Like That", 1941

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