Speaking of Books and LifeHolt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966 - 279 Seiten Contains 125 of the 900 columns the author produced for the New York Times. |
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... interest in biog- raphy always rose or fell with the public's interest in human per- sonality , in its taste for psychology . This ebb and flow , he thought , is governed by the prevailing level of religious belief . " In periods when ...
... interest in biog- raphy always rose or fell with the public's interest in human per- sonality , in its taste for psychology . This ebb and flow , he thought , is governed by the prevailing level of religious belief . " In periods when ...
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... interest persists , but in varying degrees ; it may decline and it may even increase to a degree which overshadows interest in other human beings . I speak of these matters because I have been wondering whether any significance attaches ...
... interest persists , but in varying degrees ; it may decline and it may even increase to a degree which overshadows interest in other human beings . I speak of these matters because I have been wondering whether any significance attaches ...
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... interest in Samuel Johnson as a writer ; interest in the man himself has been perennial . When an abridged edition of the famous Dictionary was published last May , that extraordinary work had been out of print for many years . In ...
... interest in Samuel Johnson as a writer ; interest in the man himself has been perennial . When an abridged edition of the famous Dictionary was published last May , that extraordinary work had been out of print for many years . In ...
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Foreword 37 | 3 |
Truth Isnt Always Stranger | 7 |
The Proper Study of Mankind | 41 |
Urheberrecht | |
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