The Pursuits of Leisure & Other EssaysBooks for Libraries Press, 1968 - 162 Seiten |
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... reviewer to do that . What we do want is more critics inspired by the dictum of Pliny the elder , who affirmed that ... review books , the editor of an important London newspaper invited me to write an article upon a portentous new work ...
... reviewer to do that . What we do want is more critics inspired by the dictum of Pliny the elder , who affirmed that ... review books , the editor of an important London newspaper invited me to write an article upon a portentous new work ...
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... review of this book had had to bear the signature of its writer , there would have been one of two salutary results . Either the book would never have been sent to me to review ; or , if it had been , and if I had reviewed it , nobody ...
... review of this book had had to bear the signature of its writer , there would have been one of two salutary results . Either the book would never have been sent to me to review ; or , if it had been , and if I had reviewed it , nobody ...
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... Review in the last half of the nineteenth century . We may , to our advantage , read all of these to - day , if we ... reviewer as well as by the student of letters : ' At the day of judgment we shall not be examined as to what we have ...
... Review in the last half of the nineteenth century . We may , to our advantage , read all of these to - day , if we ... reviewer as well as by the student of letters : ' At the day of judgment we shall not be examined as to what we have ...
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Foreword page | 1 |
Books and Their Uses | 15 |
Memoirs and Biographies | 41 |
Urheberrecht | |
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