Knowledge is Power: A Guide to Personal CultureHutchinson, 1935 - 360 pages |
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... writing biographies ; but I find myself proceeding and attaching myself to it for my own , the virtues of these great men now serving me as a sort of looking - glass in which I may see how to adjust and adorn my own life . Indeed , it ...
... writing biographies ; but I find myself proceeding and attaching myself to it for my own , the virtues of these great men now serving me as a sort of looking - glass in which I may see how to adjust and adorn my own life . Indeed , it ...
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... writing . Novelists of Latter- day Repute Now I come to more modern writers , and I use the little space left to me to give but a word or two to the best of them . Mrs. Oliphant and Mrs. Craik are two writers who did honour to their sex ...
... writing . Novelists of Latter- day Repute Now I come to more modern writers , and I use the little space left to me to give but a word or two to the best of them . Mrs. Oliphant and Mrs. Craik are two writers who did honour to their sex ...
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... writing by means of hiero- glyphics or picture - words . Most people have some idea of the famous Egyptian hieroglyphics , but it is not everybody who knows that the Chinese writing of the present day , capable of expressing the most ...
... writing by means of hiero- glyphics or picture - words . Most people have some idea of the famous Egyptian hieroglyphics , but it is not everybody who knows that the Chinese writing of the present day , capable of expressing the most ...
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