Points of ViewC. Scribner's sons, 1924 - 361 páginas |
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... Butler " ; and to Boni and Liveright for the " George Sand and Gustave Flaubert , " from Mrs. Mackenzie's translation of the Sand - Flaubert correspondence . CONTENTS I. TOWARDS AN AMERICAN TYPE .. PAGE II . vi PREFACE.
... Butler " ; and to Boni and Liveright for the " George Sand and Gustave Flaubert , " from Mrs. Mackenzie's translation of the Sand - Flaubert correspondence . CONTENTS I. TOWARDS AN AMERICAN TYPE .. PAGE II . vi PREFACE.
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... GERTRUDE STEIN .... 261 XVI . SAMUEL BUTLER : DIOGENES OF THE VIC- TORIANS ... 269 XVII . THE DISRAELIAN IRONY . 291 XVIII . GEORGE Sand and GUSTAVE FLAUBERT ... 325 I TOWARDS AN AMERICAN TYPE I TOWARDS AN AMERICAN TYPE.
... GERTRUDE STEIN .... 261 XVI . SAMUEL BUTLER : DIOGENES OF THE VIC- TORIANS ... 269 XVII . THE DISRAELIAN IRONY . 291 XVIII . GEORGE Sand and GUSTAVE FLAUBERT ... 325 I TOWARDS AN AMERICAN TYPE I TOWARDS AN AMERICAN TYPE.
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... Butler of saintly memory , for example , they have adopted the theory that the chief obstacle to happiness in the path of children is their parents . At first thought the idea perhaps commends itself as offering to youthful impatience ...
... Butler of saintly memory , for example , they have adopted the theory that the chief obstacle to happiness in the path of children is their parents . At first thought the idea perhaps commends itself as offering to youthful impatience ...
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... of speech failed to accomplish . And so far as the perfection of the enterprise is humanly possible , her efforts have been crowned with success . XVI SAMUEL BUTLER : DIOGENES OF THE VICTORIANS XVI SAMUEL 268 POINTS OF VIEW.
... of speech failed to accomplish . And so far as the perfection of the enterprise is humanly possible , her efforts have been crowned with success . XVI SAMUEL BUTLER : DIOGENES OF THE VICTORIANS XVI SAMUEL 268 POINTS OF VIEW.
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Stuart Pratt Sherman. XVI SAMUEL BUTLER : DIOGENES OF THE VICTORIANS XVI SAMUEL BUTLER : DIOGENES OF THE VICTORIANS " Avay XVI SAMUEL BUTLER: DIOGENES OF THE VIC- TORIANS.
Stuart Pratt Sherman. XVI SAMUEL BUTLER : DIOGENES OF THE VICTORIANS XVI SAMUEL BUTLER : DIOGENES OF THE VICTORIANS " Avay XVI SAMUEL BUTLER: DIOGENES OF THE VIC- TORIANS.
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