The Pursuits of Leisure & Other EssaysBooks for Libraries Press, 1968 - 162 Seiten |
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... remember it . The man who writes his own Biography should ap- proach the task as though he were writing the life of another man ; if he does so , he will not be over - egotist- ical , nor unduly long , nor meticulously careful about ...
... remember it . The man who writes his own Biography should ap- proach the task as though he were writing the life of another man ; if he does so , he will not be over - egotist- ical , nor unduly long , nor meticulously careful about ...
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... remember ; but , however true the assertion may have been in the beginning , and however often I may have used it myself , I do not think that now , in this year of grace 1929 , it contains enough truth to be worth re- peating . Let us ...
... remember ; but , however true the assertion may have been in the beginning , and however often I may have used it myself , I do not think that now , in this year of grace 1929 , it contains enough truth to be worth re- peating . Let us ...
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... remember the Four Children who went round the world , and in the course of their voyage , came to a land ' where the uncooked fish complained of the cold , and mentioned the difficulty of sleeping on account of the noises made by the ...
... remember the Four Children who went round the world , and in the course of their voyage , came to a land ' where the uncooked fish complained of the cold , and mentioned the difficulty of sleeping on account of the noises made by the ...
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Foreword page | 1 |
Books and Their Uses | 15 |
Memoirs and Biographies | 41 |
Urheberrecht | |
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