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... languages , may not be able to speak any but his own , may have read very few books . whatever language he knows , he knows precisely ; what- ever word he pronounces , he pronounces rightly . Above all , he is learned in the peerage of ...
... languages , may not be able to speak any but his own , may have read very few books . whatever language he knows , he knows precisely ; what- ever word he pronounces , he pronounces rightly . Above all , he is learned in the peerage of ...
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... languages no harm comes . None of us — none , at any rate , outside the diplomatic service - has a feeling that he ought to be master of them . In ... language except French has ever - but stay ! There was 332 Noble's Comparative Classics.
... languages no harm comes . None of us — none , at any rate , outside the diplomatic service - has a feeling that he ought to be master of them . In ... language except French has ever - but stay ! There was 332 Noble's Comparative Classics.
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... language , even for children . Russia's alphabet was withdrawn from the nurseries as abruptly as it had been brought in , and le chapeau de la cousine du jardinier ** was re - indued with its old importance . I doubt whether Russian ...
... language , even for children . Russia's alphabet was withdrawn from the nurseries as abruptly as it had been brought in , and le chapeau de la cousine du jardinier ** was re - indued with its old importance . I doubt whether Russian ...
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ON GOING A JOURNEY William Hazlitt | 7 |
HOLIDAY John Galsworthy | 18 |
OF FRIENDSHIP Francis Bacon | 25 |
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