Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
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Page 57
... journals , some write autobiographies . All such men feel the need to unbosom themselves . Perhaps the diarist has no ... journal , or an autobiography , the reason for its existence is the same . The writers have a horror of oblivion ...
... journals , some write autobiographies . All such men feel the need to unbosom themselves . Perhaps the diarist has no ... journal , or an autobiography , the reason for its existence is the same . The writers have a horror of oblivion ...
Page 58
... journal , in which we see the times more clearly than the man . For students of history most journals surpass most diaries in value . Wesley's Journal is a major document of the eighteenth century ; Parson Woodforde's Diary , delicious ...
... journal , in which we see the times more clearly than the man . For students of history most journals surpass most diaries in value . Wesley's Journal is a major document of the eighteenth century ; Parson Woodforde's Diary , delicious ...
Page 59
... political affairs , in which he was an unwearying Whig . And from the year 1811 until his death in 1867 at the age of nearly ninety - two he kept a journal . It was a very voluminous journal . When a selection 59 Diaries and Journals.
... political affairs , in which he was an unwearying Whig . And from the year 1811 until his death in 1867 at the age of nearly ninety - two he kept a journal . It was a very voluminous journal . When a selection 59 Diaries and Journals.
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WHY READ THE CLASSICS? | 9 |
FINISHING A BOOK | 45 |
THE CONVERSATION OF AUTHORS | 51 |
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