Essays for Our Day: A Background of ModelsLouis Byron Shackelford, Florien Preston Gass |
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... present the whole sex is in a manner dwarfed , and shrunk into a race of beauties that seems almost another species . I remember several ladies , who were once very near seven foot high , that at present want some inches of five . How ...
... present the whole sex is in a manner dwarfed , and shrunk into a race of beauties that seems almost another species . I remember several ladies , who were once very near seven foot high , that at present want some inches of five . How ...
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... present insuperable , —the dif- ficulty of knowing whether to address one's audience as believing , or not believing , in any other world than this . For if you address any average modern English company as believing in an Eternal life ...
... present insuperable , —the dif- ficulty of knowing whether to address one's audience as believing , or not believing , in any other world than this . For if you address any average modern English company as believing in an Eternal life ...
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... present can be very sound , if one has no background of the cultural traditions of the race . Ideas of life gained from an exclusive study of the present are necessarily second - rate . Professor John Erskine says , " To live only in ...
... present can be very sound , if one has no background of the cultural traditions of the race . Ideas of life gained from an exclusive study of the present are necessarily second - rate . Professor John Erskine says , " To live only in ...
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