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... light , and whet- teth his wits as against a stone , which itself cuts not . In a word , a man were better relate ... light is ever the best . And certain it is that the light that a man receiveth by counsel from another is drier and ...
... light , and whet- teth his wits as against a stone , which itself cuts not . In a word , a man were better relate ... light is ever the best . And certain it is that the light that a man receiveth by counsel from another is drier and ...
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... light- ethereal , tremulous , almost faƫry , and that pillar of light will be Broadway canyon between its brick walls still clad in shadow . It is given only to the foreign - born ditchers and hewers of the crowded lower Bronx , as they ...
... light- ethereal , tremulous , almost faƫry , and that pillar of light will be Broadway canyon between its brick walls still clad in shadow . It is given only to the foreign - born ditchers and hewers of the crowded lower Bronx , as they ...
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... lights in the Baltimore and Hartford lunches are out . The street cars , running on shorter schedules , have taken on their day- light screech and clangor . The conductor is fast sinking into daylight surliness . The huge bundles of ...
... lights in the Baltimore and Hartford lunches are out . The street cars , running on shorter schedules , have taken on their day- light screech and clangor . The conductor is fast sinking into daylight surliness . The huge bundles of ...
Contents
ON GOING A JOURNEY William Hazlitt | 7 |
HOLIDAY John Galsworthy | 18 |
OF FRIENDSHIP Francis Bacon | 25 |
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