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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... we shall scarcely meet them at all ; for , wrote Addison , “ True Happiness is of a retired Nature , and • The Observer , London , January 1 , 1939 . A NEW LIFE A NEW LIFE Nearly seven hundred years 20 LIVING UPSTAIRS.
... we shall scarcely meet them at all ; for , wrote Addison , “ True Happiness is of a retired Nature , and • The Observer , London , January 1 , 1939 . A NEW LIFE A NEW LIFE Nearly seven hundred years 20 LIVING UPSTAIRS.
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... wrote those verses shunned heated rooms , he was never known to open a book other than the telephone directory , and at even the sight of a pipe smoked by somebody else he sicklied o'er with the pale cast of queasiness . Some books are ...
... wrote those verses shunned heated rooms , he was never known to open a book other than the telephone directory , and at even the sight of a pipe smoked by somebody else he sicklied o'er with the pale cast of queasiness . Some books are ...
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... wrote with tongue in cheek . Epicureans and Stoics , Cynics and Sophists , he had in mind when he wrote that fools , in avoiding one set of vices , run to an opposite assortment . Holding in honor the motto , Nothing in Excess , that ...
... wrote with tongue in cheek . Epicureans and Stoics , Cynics and Sophists , he had in mind when he wrote that fools , in avoiding one set of vices , run to an opposite assortment . Holding in honor the motto , Nothing in Excess , that ...
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