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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy; for at this early period We can not expect to have a Navy to cope with the British.
If there's one thing above all that sets me apart from Tony Blair it is this - I am not embarrassed to articulate the instincts of the British people.
British comedian Imran Yusuf is fantastic and so is Shazia Mirza, also London-based.
At school, we'd studied the Romans and the Saxons, and I was fascinated by it all. So I made my dad take me to the British Museum as often as possible.
Alice Oswald. With Hughes and Heaney gone, people are looking around for the best British and Irish poets. Oswald is one of our finest.
There just seems to be more acceptance now of... other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.
I went to a British Council event a while back and there were lots of German professors of literature. About half of them were convinced I had a German sense of humour and the other half were sure it was British. They are probably still arguing about it now.
I'm wary of the word 'inventing,' because in the British psyche the word 'inventor' is immediately linked with 'mad'. For me, inventing is problem-solving.
I wil not compare the education of an ancient Spartan with that of a British nobleman.
It has, therefore, been a favorite boast of the people of Wales and Cornwall, that the original British stock flourishes in its unmixed purity only among them.
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.
Among the fables that inspired the British Admiralty's cartographic assignments to Captain James Cook in the 1770s and Captain George Vancouver in the 1790s was a 1640 account under the name of Bartholomew de Fonte that appeared in a journal with the delightful title 'The Monthly Miscellany, or Memoirs for the Curious.'
Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which had been in place, for the most part, for several centuries before Canada was even thought of.
That is the nature of the British psyche. It's very blunt, plain, very linear. It's pragmatic: it records life as it is.
Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.
The British who arrived in the United States in the eighteen-thirties and forties had imagined the young republic as a wide-eyed adolescent, socially ungainly and politically gauche, but with some hint of promise.
My story is the story of many postwar British families. Upward mobility. A council house and then new affluence.
The British troops are not an occupation force. They are here with the consent of the people.
When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
In ancient British times, the whole country belonged to tribes, and the tribes owned their several districts. At the head of each tribe was the chief.
Most correspondents came from the former colonial powers - there were British, French, and a lot of Italians, because there were a lot of Italian communities there. And of course there were a lot of Russians.
As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it.
Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.
Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.
The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.
I've never been embedded with American soldiers or British soldiers or Iraqi soldiers or any other.
We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe.
We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very pleased to have survived it.
It's like a badge of honour if you're a British actor and you get the 'Harry Potter' call. It meant a lot to me.
I love 'Skins'. I was a huge fan of the British series. I love how everyone is freaking out about it.
Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
The purpose of Conservative Budgets is to empower the British people and revitalise the country.
There is a certain advantage to the British accent. I do notice that Americans love it; they think the we Brits are smarter than perhaps we are.
What's so useful about the British culture of politeness is the level of passive aggression is really fun to write.
There's something very polite about the British accents. It's sort of sanitizing.
It's weathered many a storm, but the British film industry is, thankfully, still afloat.
There are a lot of similarities between Jonathan Higgins and Juliet Higgins: they're both British, they both come from military backgrounds, and they're both control freaks.
I think it is so beneficial to English and British football when youngsters see different cultures and environments.
We have lost all our big Australian industries and icons, including Qantas when it sold 25 % of its shares and a controlling interest to British Airways.
I came to London during what was called the second British invasion. The music was from Britain, the fashion was from Britain, everything was from Britain, so I knew I had to be in Britain.
Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide and rule, but the British were not above exploiting rivalries.
The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan.
I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
One thing I have been banging on about, we have a dessert deficit in the U.K. We still import a very large proportion of our desserts. I would ask everyone to go out and buy a British dessert.
Over 30 years ago, Airbus was founded by a European consortium of French, German, and later Spanish and British companies to compete in the large commercial aircraft industry with U.S. companies.
When we were growing up we were all asked to accept ourselves as British citizens, and I still hold on to this idea that multicultural Britain is possible.
We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education.
British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling.
We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.
The idea that the British carried out hundreds of war crimes in Iraq is, of course, utterly without foundation and grossly unfair.
The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood.
For a little while there, I was thinking, 'I don't want to be in anything on British TV'. I didn't watch any of it because it was rubbish.
I remember, as a kid, we would go and watch the Red Arrows, and I thought it was similar to British wrestlers and the acrobatic division.
For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa.
A collection that embraces the whole world allows you to consider the whole world. That is what an institution such as the British Museum is for.
I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.
It's because Gandhi believed in villages and because the British ruled from the cities; therefore, Nehru thought of New Delhi as an un-Indian city.
Jews have been living in Jerusalem way before British people were living in London.
More than 13,000 Malaysians travel to the U.K. to study in British universities every year.
Early economic theory was rooted in the Italian, French, and Spanish traditions, which were subjectivist oriented. Then it shifted onto the terrible path by Smith and Ricardo and the British classical tradition, which is 'objectivist' - values are in inherent in production.
It is absolutely bedrock to the British Army's philosophy that a commanding officer is responsible for what goes on within his command.
That was after Napoleon died because there is still a controversy as to whether Napoleon was poisoned with arsenic. And the French say the British did it and the British say the French did it, but he died before the test for arsenic was available.
When somebody says something as a joke, the British press take things and twist them.
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