Squire Silchester's Whim, Volumen1H.S. King & Company, 1873 |
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... in order by a tap with her old ivory fan upon their shoulder , - Joan Audley had learnt English well . She did not write themes ; she did read Shakespeare 1 and Swift . She worked a sampler ; she learnt THE SQUIRE AND HIS WIFE . 15.
... in order by a tap with her old ivory fan upon their shoulder , - Joan Audley had learnt English well . She did not write themes ; she did read Shakespeare 1 and Swift . She worked a sampler ; she learnt THE SQUIRE AND HIS WIFE . 15.
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... write . Imagination and memory are what men want . Learn your Homer and your Solon . Get poetry and law into your brain ; the one will teach you the pleasure and peril of life , the other its method and management . " " But really ...
... write . Imagination and memory are what men want . Learn your Homer and your Solon . Get poetry and law into your brain ; the one will teach you the pleasure and peril of life , the other its method and management . " " But really ...
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... writing ? " " YES , " he replied , with an emphasis that deserves small capitals . " My dear girl , you talk of teaching them their alphabet . Do you know your alphabet ? " " I ought to , " she answered . " What alphabet do you know ...
... writing ? " " YES , " he replied , with an emphasis that deserves small capitals . " My dear girl , you talk of teaching them their alphabet . Do you know your alphabet ? " " I ought to , " she answered . " What alphabet do you know ...
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... writing , and he produces an epic poem , or a new way of squaring the circle . No : I have made up my mind about the education of my son and daughter . Two things will I never teach them two things they must learn of their own free will ...
... writing , and he produces an epic poem , or a new way of squaring the circle . No : I have made up my mind about the education of my son and daughter . Two things will I never teach them two things they must learn of their own free will ...
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... writing had never been invented ! Imagine my mélan- colie profonde when the sheet of unstained paper before me is the first of about a thousand that I shall have to spoil in presenting you , dear reader , with a three volume novel . Am ...
... writing had never been invented ! Imagine my mélan- colie profonde when the sheet of unstained paper before me is the first of about a thousand that I shall have to spoil in presenting you , dear reader , with a three volume novel . Am ...
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