The Pursuits of Leisure & Other EssaysBooks for Libraries Press, 1968 - 162 Seiten |
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... ourselves or for anybody else . Nor do I sym- pathise with a wholesale condemnation of novel - reading as ' the last relaxation of the intellectually unemployed . ' Novels have their uses , of a minor kind : 6 THE PURSUITS OF LEISURE.
... ourselves or for anybody else . Nor do I sym- pathise with a wholesale condemnation of novel - reading as ' the last relaxation of the intellectually unemployed . ' Novels have their uses , of a minor kind : 6 THE PURSUITS OF LEISURE.
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... kind . A good critic , ' said George Macdonald , ' should be like God ; he should be easy to please and hard to satisfy . ' From the consideration of reading it is but a short step to a few reflections that I hope to offer you upon the ...
... kind . A good critic , ' said George Macdonald , ' should be like God ; he should be easy to please and hard to satisfy . ' From the consideration of reading it is but a short step to a few reflections that I hope to offer you upon the ...
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... kind . For , not infrequently , he adopts this method of defending himself from what he con- ceives to be a widespread and ill - founded calumny , and publishes an expansive self - revealing volume to give his side of the story . If the ...
... kind . For , not infrequently , he adopts this method of defending himself from what he con- ceives to be a widespread and ill - founded calumny , and publishes an expansive self - revealing volume to give his side of the story . If the ...
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Foreword page | 1 |
Books and Their Uses | 15 |
Memoirs and Biographies | 41 |
Urheberrecht | |
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