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... become , thanks largely to our newspapers and magazines , perhaps our chief vehicle of really literary thought . It covers all the fields which readers glean . It touches with a light pen the whimsical fancies of minds which see life ...
... become , thanks largely to our newspapers and magazines , perhaps our chief vehicle of really literary thought . It covers all the fields which readers glean . It touches with a light pen the whimsical fancies of minds which see life ...
Page 130
... become a lethargic state of mind for us . We accepted it from the beginning with green - fly , influenza , margarine , calling - up notices , and death . It is as much outside our control as the precession of the equinoxes . We believed ...
... become a lethargic state of mind for us . We accepted it from the beginning with green - fly , influenza , margarine , calling - up notices , and death . It is as much outside our control as the precession of the equinoxes . We believed ...
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... becomes more spe- cialized , it becomes impossible for any one to find free and full development for all his natural powers in any recognized occupation . What then becomes of the other selves ? The answer must be that playgrounds must ...
... becomes more spe- cialized , it becomes impossible for any one to find free and full development for all his natural powers in any recognized occupation . What then becomes of the other selves ? The answer must be that playgrounds must ...
Contents
ON GOING A JOURNEY William Hazlitt | 7 |
HOLIDAY John Galsworthy | 18 |
OF FRIENDSHIP Francis Bacon | 25 |
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