The Frank Muir Book: An Irreverent Companion to Social HistoryPearson Education New Zealand Limited, 1976 - 372 pages |
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Page 101
... word of advice from the poet Shelley's father to his younger son . An expensive pleasure : How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it ! John Ruskin ( 1819-1900 ) Sesame and ...
... word of advice from the poet Shelley's father to his younger son . An expensive pleasure : How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it ! John Ruskin ( 1819-1900 ) Sesame and ...
Page 142
... Words- worth . If the key word for the beginning of the century was ' sense ' , the key word for the century's end was ' sensibility ' . In the seventeenth century Descartes had written ' I think , therefore I am ' . During the ...
... Words- worth . If the key word for the beginning of the century was ' sense ' , the key word for the century's end was ' sensibility ' . In the seventeenth century Descartes had written ' I think , therefore I am ' . During the ...
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... word for an actor , hupokritēs , has now become the pejorative word ' hypocrite ' , although the old meaning of the word survived until the last century : Someone inquiring for cottage lodgings asked if she could not be taken in at a ...
... word for an actor , hupokritēs , has now become the pejorative word ' hypocrite ' , although the old meaning of the word survived until the last century : Someone inquiring for cottage lodgings asked if she could not be taken in at a ...
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