The Pursuits of Leisure & Other EssaysBooks for Libraries Press, 1968 - 162 Seiten |
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... tion . He or she are eager analysts and dissectors of Sunday sermons both in town and country , though one is unable to trace their study of moral and theological subjects to any other day in the week . Whilst as for can- vassing the ...
... tion . He or she are eager analysts and dissectors of Sunday sermons both in town and country , though one is unable to trace their study of moral and theological subjects to any other day in the week . Whilst as for can- vassing the ...
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... tion - yet these branches of information can hardly be called essential . It has been said , rather rashly , I think , that tous les styles sont bons , hormis l'ennuyeux ' ; yet there are very few styles indeed , of the centuries which ...
... tion - yet these branches of information can hardly be called essential . It has been said , rather rashly , I think , that tous les styles sont bons , hormis l'ennuyeux ' ; yet there are very few styles indeed , of the centuries which ...
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... tion when things went well , with words of sympathy and advice in days of adversity . How could one fail to be devoted to such a man ? The reader of these pages is foredoomed to disappoint- ment if he expects to find in them either a ...
... tion when things went well , with words of sympathy and advice in days of adversity . How could one fail to be devoted to such a man ? The reader of these pages is foredoomed to disappoint- ment if he expects to find in them either a ...
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Foreword page | 1 |
Books and Their Uses | 15 |
Memoirs and Biographies | 41 |
Urheberrecht | |
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