Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
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Page 75
... hour to hour , whether he shall go east or west , sit down , dine , push on in darkness , or sail from the next or another port . A com- panion always has his own schemes . Only if the journey is by sea , or if for some reason such as ...
... hour to hour , whether he shall go east or west , sit down , dine , push on in darkness , or sail from the next or another port . A com- panion always has his own schemes . Only if the journey is by sea , or if for some reason such as ...
Page 107
... hour and seventeen minutes per day . " Prodigious ! " We have no magazine in this country quite corresponding to Harper's . I wish we had . It is not possible to compare its readers with any similar group here , where monthly magazines ...
... hour and seventeen minutes per day . " Prodigious ! " We have no magazine in this country quite corresponding to Harper's . I wish we had . It is not possible to compare its readers with any similar group here , where monthly magazines ...
Page 139
... hour . Luckily we are fond of a walk by night . It does not always do us good ; but that is not the fault of the hour , but our own , who ought to be stouter . And Hazlitt : I cannot understand the rage manifested by the greater part of ...
... hour . Luckily we are fond of a walk by night . It does not always do us good ; but that is not the fault of the hour , but our own , who ought to be stouter . And Hazlitt : I cannot understand the rage manifested by the greater part of ...
Contents
WHY READ THE CLASSICS? | 9 |
FINISHING A BOOK | 45 |
THE CONVERSATION OF AUTHORS | 51 |
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