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After the foundation of the Distributist League specifically entitled the “League for the Defense of Liberty Through the Distribution of Property”, Shove collaborated with other well-known Distributists such as Hilaire Belloc and G.
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Of course socialists and communists have been against capitalism, but its opponents have also included many very traditional Catholics, such as Hilaire Belloc and G.
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When asked about lobbying by the United Nations for control over the Web as an alternative to Icann, Ms. Dyson correctly calls this a "fate worse than death" and quotes this warning from a poem by British poet Hilaire Belloc: "Always keep a-hold of Nurse / For fear of finding something worse."
A New Challenge for Web Freedom L. Gordon Crovitz 2012
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"Lift up your hearts in Gumber," declared the writer Hilaire Belloc.
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Hilaire Belloc, the deeply Catholic French writer who had taken residence in England, was also made uneasy by the ready application of machine gunnery in colonial governance and the callous attitudes that accompanied it.
The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010
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I think this is probably a fairer criticism of someone like Hilaire Belloc than Chestertson, who was probably prone to make casual anti-semitic remarks to the same extent as most Englishmen of his time, but also eventually supported a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
The Volokh Conspiracy » G.K. Chesterton, The Apostle of Common Sense: 2010
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Chapman is very good on the array of almost exclusively literary influences that made Barrett such a singular – and definably English – songwriter, citing his debt to Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, Hilaire Belloc, Kenneth Grahame and even James Joyce, whose strange love poem, "Golden Hair", Syd turned into a kind of narcotic dream-song.
Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head by Rob Chapman Sean O 2010
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As the English writer Hilaire Belloc mordantly versified around this time: Whatever happens, we have got the Maxim gun, and they have not.
Companies to Colonies Jeffrey Collins 2010
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Raban locates the intellectual heritage of Red Tory in the Catholic Distributist League; a 1920s movement championed by G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc.
A Few Euros More | afoe | A Fistful of Euros | European Opinion 2010
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Or, to borrow the rather more poetic rendering of the late, great Hilaire Belloc: When I am dead, I hope it may be said, “His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”
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