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... universe . About all this poor Herbert discoursed to us lyrically , but with just that touch of humour and restraint required by the good taste which with him was a characteristic both in- herited from nineteenth - century ladies and ...
... universe . About all this poor Herbert discoursed to us lyrically , but with just that touch of humour and restraint required by the good taste which with him was a characteristic both in- herited from nineteenth - century ladies and ...
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... universe ; secondly to describe , as simply and clearly as he can , his personal life , his relation , not to history and the universe , but to persons and to himself , his record in the trivial , diffi- cult , fascinating art of living ...
... universe ; secondly to describe , as simply and clearly as he can , his personal life , his relation , not to history and the universe , but to persons and to himself , his record in the trivial , diffi- cult , fascinating art of living ...
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... universe seems to have dwindled to an unending series of hotel corridors , lavatories , and lounges - I tend to go to the zoo . I am ambivalent about zoos : I have an uneasy feeling that one should not keep animals in cages , but I ...
... universe seems to have dwindled to an unending series of hotel corridors , lavatories , and lounges - I tend to go to the zoo . I am ambivalent about zoos : I have an uneasy feeling that one should not keep animals in cages , but I ...
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Downhill All the Way: An Autobiography of the Years 1919 to 1939 Leonard Woolf No preview available - 1975 |
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