Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
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Page 59
... University ; but he picked up a good deal of literary knowledge from the earliest of his afterwards innumerable friends , and when he was twenty - three he was left a hundred pounds a year by an uncle , which ( such was the value of a ...
... University ; but he picked up a good deal of literary knowledge from the earliest of his afterwards innumerable friends , and when he was twenty - three he was left a hundred pounds a year by an uncle , which ( such was the value of a ...
Page 94
... University and to advance his career . Residence in Edinburgh made Smith acquainted with Francis Jeffrey and Henry Brougham , two other dazzling young men ; and these three , with a fourth named Francis Horner , started the out- spoken ...
... University and to advance his career . Residence in Edinburgh made Smith acquainted with Francis Jeffrey and Henry Brougham , two other dazzling young men ; and these three , with a fourth named Francis Horner , started the out- spoken ...
Page 107
... University in order to have read , by the age of twenty - nine , what Bennett had not read by that age ; wholly right in implying that the years for voracious reading are those of youth , particularly those spent by receptive boys and ...
... University in order to have read , by the age of twenty - nine , what Bennett had not read by that age ; wholly right in implying that the years for voracious reading are those of youth , particularly those spent by receptive boys and ...
Contents
WHY READ THE CLASSICS? | 9 |
FINISHING A BOOK | 45 |
THE CONVERSATION OF AUTHORS | 51 |
Copyright | |
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