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“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
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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