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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... Once school youth , planning a visit to Europe , asked perienced traveler and journalist for suggestion lad put in a proviso , however , which to hims other youngsters bent on being " different " mus suggested an attitude of ...
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... once wrote , " we are not generous enoug great satire . " Remonstrate he does , but inva that disarming , worldly - wise smile of his . might be transferred the epitaph on the Lond rial of W. S. Gilbert : " His foe was folly , and wit ...
... once wrote , " we are not generous enoug great satire . " Remonstrate he does , but inva that disarming , worldly - wise smile of his . might be transferred the epitaph on the Lond rial of W. S. Gilbert : " His foe was folly , and wit ...
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... once he made a fool of himself and frankly admitted his folly . Lucullan feasts he sometimes shared but felt less fit the morning after , and decided that the wine of the Sabine country , quaffed from modest cups , was a seemlier bev ...
... once he made a fool of himself and frankly admitted his folly . Lucullan feasts he sometimes shared but felt less fit the morning after , and decided that the wine of the Sabine country , quaffed from modest cups , was a seemlier bev ...
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