A Second Treasury of the World's Great Letters: A Mixed Mailbag Including Intimate Exchanges and Cycles of Correspondence by Famed Men and Women of History and the ArtsWallace Brockway, Bart Keith Winer Simon and Schuster, 1941 - 636 pages Brockway, Wallace & Winer, Bart Keith, ed. |
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Page 54
... heard the cares which rose up into the heart of the climber , listen , father , to what follows , and give up an hour to reading of the doings of one of my days . First of all , braced by the nip of the keen air and the extent of the ...
... heard the cares which rose up into the heart of the climber , listen , father , to what follows , and give up an hour to reading of the doings of one of my days . First of all , braced by the nip of the keen air and the extent of the ...
Page 57
... heard me say a word till we reached the bottom . That passage had given me enough to think about , nor could I suppose that the thing had happened by chance ; for I remembered that Augustine himself once had the same suspicion , when ...
... heard me say a word till we reached the bottom . That passage had given me enough to think about , nor could I suppose that the thing had happened by chance ; for I remembered that Augustine himself once had the same suspicion , when ...
Page 95
... heard that I ate things from the hands of Hindustanis - the thing being that three or four months earlier , as I had not seen Hindustani dishes , I had ordered Ibrahim's cooks to be brought and out of fifty or sixty had kept four . Of ...
... heard that I ate things from the hands of Hindustanis - the thing being that three or four months earlier , as I had not seen Hindustani dishes , I had ordered Ibrahim's cooks to be brought and out of fifty or sixty had kept four . Of ...
Contents
A FATAL FRIENDSHIP A SERIES | 3 |
CAESAR WARNS CICERO TO STAND ALOOF FROM CIVIL STRIFE | 12 |
SENECA DENOUNCES THE MODERN TREATMENT | 17 |
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