Living Upstairs: Reading for Profit and PleasureE. P. Dutton & Company, Incorporated, 1942 - 256 Seiten The author uses the idea of decorating and furnishing an upper room in one's house as an allegory for developing reading habits for profit and recreation. |
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... Chair by the Window . It minis- ters to our need for relaxing , for letting go , for reward- ing if unsystematic reflection on the ways of the world . The chair is by the window because there the light is acceptable for reading , but ...
... Chair by the Window . It minis- ters to our need for relaxing , for letting go , for reward- ing if unsystematic reflection on the ways of the world . The chair is by the window because there the light is acceptable for reading , but ...
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... Chair by the Window . All our days have not been playing holidays . We take our ease with a good conscience only when we have earned our ease . Especially is it true that the ease we take in the Chair by the Window is the ease of a ...
... Chair by the Window . All our days have not been playing holidays . We take our ease with a good conscience only when we have earned our ease . Especially is it true that the ease we take in the Chair by the Window is the ease of a ...
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Reading for Profit and Pleasure Francis Meehan. THE CHAIR BY THE WINDOW He who measures up to the Chair by the Window can read practically anything with impunity , immunity and profit . Censors of one sort or another we must have , even ...
Reading for Profit and Pleasure Francis Meehan. THE CHAIR BY THE WINDOW He who measures up to the Chair by the Window can read practically anything with impunity , immunity and profit . Censors of one sort or another we must have , even ...
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