Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
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... born at Alresford , in the county of Hampshire . She was an only child , and her mother , then on the verge of forty , had been an heiress , while her father , only nominally a doctor , was a cheerful spendthrift , ten years younger ...
... born at Alresford , in the county of Hampshire . She was an only child , and her mother , then on the verge of forty , had been an heiress , while her father , only nominally a doctor , was a cheerful spendthrift , ten years younger ...
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... born timid . I do not know why he was born timid ( we have no information at all about his father's character ) ; but it seems worth while to remember that although physically big- framed he had a short life , and was probably not ...
... born timid . I do not know why he was born timid ( we have no information at all about his father's character ) ; but it seems worth while to remember that although physically big- framed he had a short life , and was probably not ...
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... born traveller . Tomlinson has always been a born traveller , which is to say a born philosopher with a gift for seeking experience beyond urban horizons . The experience he seeks is spiritual . It is not intellectual , for it is beyond ...
... born traveller . Tomlinson has always been a born traveller , which is to say a born philosopher with a gift for seeking experience beyond urban horizons . The experience he seeks is spiritual . It is not intellectual , for it is beyond ...
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WHY READ THE CLASSICS? | 9 |
FINISHING A BOOK | 45 |
THE CONVERSATION OF AUTHORS | 51 |
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