The Pursuits of Leisure & Other EssaysBooks for Libraries Press, 1968 - 162 Seiten |
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... sense that we now consider Steele , Richardson , Addison , Goldsmith , Burns , Byron , Shelley and Walter Scott to be classics . Still , we live in an age of Progress -- so we are told . Progress means many things ; among others it ...
... sense that we now consider Steele , Richardson , Addison , Goldsmith , Burns , Byron , Shelley and Walter Scott to be classics . Still , we live in an age of Progress -- so we are told . Progress means many things ; among others it ...
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... sense of humour is far more mobile , less stationary , than the sense of the serious in the human mind . Not only does the influence of women appear to have in- sisted upon a change in its presentation ; but also , being stuff of a ...
... sense of humour is far more mobile , less stationary , than the sense of the serious in the human mind . Not only does the influence of women appear to have in- sisted upon a change in its presentation ; but also , being stuff of a ...
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... sense of humour is ever changing , it is all based upon and proceeds from the rock of common sense . If we cannot bring our- selves to believe that our state of society is founded in common sense , we shall never be able fully to ...
... sense of humour is ever changing , it is all based upon and proceeds from the rock of common sense . If we cannot bring our- selves to believe that our state of society is founded in common sense , we shall never be able fully to ...
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Foreword page | 1 |
Books and Their Uses | 15 |
Memoirs and Biographies | 41 |
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