The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, Volume 1G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 - Anthologies |
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... never more essential than it is to - day . The spread of education has enlarged the reading public to such huge proportions , that its choice of books decides the char- acter and conduct of unnumbered millions . To read omnivo- rously ...
... never more essential than it is to - day . The spread of education has enlarged the reading public to such huge proportions , that its choice of books decides the char- acter and conduct of unnumbered millions . To read omnivo- rously ...
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... never be a guide in making an anthology . Alas , it is too true that no selection can be perfect , and that no single choice is faultless . Yet , though opinions differ as to the relative value of much that has been chosen or omitted ...
... never be a guide in making an anthology . Alas , it is too true that no selection can be perfect , and that no single choice is faultless . Yet , though opinions differ as to the relative value of much that has been chosen or omitted ...
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... never ruffled , never morbid , never sharply sarcastic , of genial humor , always charitable and sweet - spirited . Modern society owes a great debt to the press issues conducted by Addi- son and Steele . They lived in a rude age , when ...
... never ruffled , never morbid , never sharply sarcastic , of genial humor , always charitable and sweet - spirited . Modern society owes a great debt to the press issues conducted by Addi- son and Steele . They lived in a rude age , when ...
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... of those he conversed with ; to contradict nobody ; never to assume a superiority over others . This is the ready way to gain applause , without exciting envy . MAN is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the ADDISON 15.
... of those he conversed with ; to contradict nobody ; never to assume a superiority over others . This is the ready way to gain applause , without exciting envy . MAN is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the ADDISON 15.
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... never heard that the musician had before made himself visible . When he had raised my thoughts by those transporting airs which he played , to taste the pleasures of his conversation , as I looked upon him like one astonished , he ...
... never heard that the musician had before made himself visible . When he had raised my thoughts by those transporting airs which he played , to taste the pleasures of his conversation , as I looked upon him like one astonished , he ...
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