A Free Lance in the Field of Life and LettersA. Mason, 1874 - 340 pages |
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... learning her motive and method . She had published in " Blackwood's Maga- zine ” a series of sketches afterwards collected under the common descriptive title of " Scenes of Clerical Life . " These pieces seem now , viewed in the retro ...
... learning her motive and method . She had published in " Blackwood's Maga- zine ” a series of sketches afterwards collected under the common descriptive title of " Scenes of Clerical Life . " These pieces seem now , viewed in the retro ...
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... learning appear a little over - forward to an- nounce itself . Even in these instances the reader may impute what did not belong to the writer . For ex- ample : " Signs are small measurable things , but inter- pretations are illimitable ...
... learning appear a little over - forward to an- nounce itself . Even in these instances the reader may impute what did not belong to the writer . For ex- ample : " Signs are small measurable things , but inter- pretations are illimitable ...
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... baby . But what do things like these signify weighed against the extraordinary wealth of learning , of wit , of humor , of wisdom , of passion , of thought , of psychological insight , of prophetic moral teaching 30 A FREE LANCE .
... baby . But what do things like these signify weighed against the extraordinary wealth of learning , of wit , of humor , of wisdom , of passion , of thought , of psychological insight , of prophetic moral teaching 30 A FREE LANCE .
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... learning - learning worn " lightly like a flower , " indeed , but less graceful and less precious than would have been the spontaneous bloom which we jeal- ously feel that it has sometimes displaced . The result has been , in some ...
... learning - learning worn " lightly like a flower , " indeed , but less graceful and less precious than would have been the spontaneous bloom which we jeal- ously feel that it has sometimes displaced . The result has been , in some ...
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... learning , itself ceaselessly witty , to be sure , and saturated with Attic salt , and with such excess of Yankee provincialism emphasized , we think , beyond a just effect by phonetic cacography , as hardly to keep permanently afloat ...
... learning , itself ceaselessly witty , to be sure , and saturated with Attic salt , and with such excess of Yankee provincialism emphasized , we think , beyond a just effect by phonetic cacography , as hardly to keep permanently afloat ...
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