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He has given us fine smooth surfaces on which the Daimlers and Bentleys can glide at seventy and eighty miles an hour without a jolt . But what has he given us to look at ? Stark , straight speedways , bounded by unsightly curbs .
He has given us fine smooth surfaces on which the Daimlers and Bentleys can glide at seventy and eighty miles an hour without a jolt . But what has he given us to look at ? Stark , straight speedways , bounded by unsightly curbs .
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Boswell , by those genial abridgments and vivid face - to - face pictures of Johnson's thoughts , conversational ways and modes of appearance among his fellow creatures , has given , as you often hear me say , such a delineation of a ...
Boswell , by those genial abridgments and vivid face - to - face pictures of Johnson's thoughts , conversational ways and modes of appearance among his fellow creatures , has given , as you often hear me say , such a delineation of a ...
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The account here given stirs the blood ; and is not all that is told in a like manner in this authoritative , fascinating volume . An appendix on the bringing - down of the German air - ace , Baron Richtofen , appears to clear up a ...
The account here given stirs the blood ; and is not all that is told in a like manner in this authoritative , fascinating volume . An appendix on the bringing - down of the German air - ace , Baron Richtofen , appears to clear up a ...
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ART PACE 1 1 Imperial Defence and the International Situation | 1 |
The Perversion of Mountaineering | 2 |
De Mortuis | 3 |
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