The Pursuits of Leisure & Other EssaysBooks for Libraries Press, 1968 - 162 Seiten |
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... England comparable with the talk at a French dinner - party . But here , again , after a long and privileged opportunity of judging , I am constrained to admit that , whatever the Parisian salons of the seven- teenth and eighteenth ...
... England comparable with the talk at a French dinner - party . But here , again , after a long and privileged opportunity of judging , I am constrained to admit that , whatever the Parisian salons of the seven- teenth and eighteenth ...
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... England ) has gradually fined and refined it- self , to keep attuned to the spirit and manners of its day and to the taste of that society in which the influence of women was and is ever becoming more appreciated and pronounced . The ...
... England ) has gradually fined and refined it- self , to keep attuned to the spirit and manners of its day and to the taste of that society in which the influence of women was and is ever becoming more appreciated and pronounced . The ...
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... England should be represented in books as well as in Parliament . But however much the humour of England has changed , and is still changing — there are no longer any funny little demons grinning in pictures of the Last Judgment , or ...
... England should be represented in books as well as in Parliament . But however much the humour of England has changed , and is still changing — there are no longer any funny little demons grinning in pictures of the Last Judgment , or ...
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Foreword page | 1 |
Books and Their Uses | 15 |
Memoirs and Biographies | 41 |
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