Things Ancient and ModernLongmans, Green, 1936 - 316 páginas |
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... play while he discussed Platonic mathematics with a Scottish Rugby Blue , who , though very ignorant of the classics , was alone thought worthy to discuss such high themes . He never simulated omniscience : “ Write me something about ...
... play while he discussed Platonic mathematics with a Scottish Rugby Blue , who , though very ignorant of the classics , was alone thought worthy to discuss such high themes . He never simulated omniscience : “ Write me something about ...
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Cyril Alington. on the cover from an imaginary old play , contributed by the Provost of Eton : " Our relations are becom- ing strained , ' as the Grand Inquisitor said when he put his wife's uncle on the rack . " When the book was ...
Cyril Alington. on the cover from an imaginary old play , contributed by the Provost of Eton : " Our relations are becom- ing strained , ' as the Grand Inquisitor said when he put his wife's uncle on the rack . " When the book was ...
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... play fives with him before luncheon . This was an engagement made a day or two before , and neither of us saw the least reason for cancelling it . No one who cannot understand that story has any claim to a knowledge of the English ...
... play fives with him before luncheon . This was an engagement made a day or two before , and neither of us saw the least reason for cancelling it . No one who cannot understand that story has any claim to a knowledge of the English ...
Conteúdo
CHAPTER I | 1 |
IntroductionEnglish suspicion of specialists and of school | 19 |
CHAPTER III | 39 |
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