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... Perhaps Sir Charles is the author's dream - picture of himself , a man of lofty birth , great riches , perfect breeding , endowed with every gift , accomplishment , and virtue , the very embodiment of noblesse oblige— and surrounded ...
... Perhaps Sir Charles is the author's dream - picture of himself , a man of lofty birth , great riches , perfect breeding , endowed with every gift , accomplishment , and virtue , the very embodiment of noblesse oblige— and surrounded ...
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... perhaps translate as ' swinishness ' . He had no doubt that his age was that of muflisme . This fundamental dis- satisfaction with his time was partly a matter of temperament ; what is important is that it was also shared largely by his ...
... perhaps translate as ' swinishness ' . He had no doubt that his age was that of muflisme . This fundamental dis- satisfaction with his time was partly a matter of temperament ; what is important is that it was also shared largely by his ...
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A Short Critical History Walter Ernest Allen. was modelled on her ; and perhaps the lapses into sentimentality in the presence of good women were a necessary defence mechanism . So too , perhaps , his attitude towards his ' bad women ...
A Short Critical History Walter Ernest Allen. was modelled on her ; and perhaps the lapses into sentimentality in the presence of good women were a necessary defence mechanism . So too , perhaps , his attitude towards his ' bad women ...
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