Infinite riches: gems from a lifetime of readingMcGraw-Hill, 1979 - 588 páginas Elizabeth I's last great speech, an account of Marco Polo's return to Venice, and writings by Mencken, Wilde, and Twain are among the selections included in a collection of excerpts that represents Rosten's lifelong love for the printed word |
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... England have no titles D Ancestry has never counted much in England. The English lord knows himself to be such a very genuine article that, when looking for a wife ... [he seeks] large tracts of town property more than Norman blood. He ...
... England have no titles D Ancestry has never counted much in England. The English lord knows himself to be such a very genuine article that, when looking for a wife ... [he seeks] large tracts of town property more than Norman blood. He ...
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... ENGLAND For all their dissipation there was nothing decadent about these eighteenth-century aristocrats. Their ... England's destinies with the same self-confident vigor that they drank and diced Rakes and ladies of fashion intersperse ...
... ENGLAND For all their dissipation there was nothing decadent about these eighteenth-century aristocrats. Their ... England's destinies with the same self-confident vigor that they drank and diced Rakes and ladies of fashion intersperse ...
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... England, 474 The World and the West, 287 Trade, absence of, 506 Trade unions, 519-520 Trade unions: England, 506-507 Tradition, 247, 395, 449 and governing, 232 Trafalgar, Battle of, 383-384 Tragedy, 507 Translation, 507 Pope of Homer ...
... England, 474 The World and the West, 287 Trade, absence of, 506 Trade unions, 519-520 Trade unions: England, 506-507 Tradition, 247, 395, 449 and governing, 232 Trafalgar, Battle of, 383-384 Tragedy, 507 Translation, 507 Pope of Homer ...
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A. J. P. TAYLOR ALBERT EINSTEIN American ARISTOTLE BAMBER GASCOIGNE beauty believe BENJAMIN BERTRAND RUSSELL Capitalism century Chinese Christian civilization Copyright court death democracy dream earth economic enemy England English Essays Europe everything excerpts existence experience eyes face fact faith feel freedom G. K. CHESTERTON GEORGE GEORGE MIKES H. L. MENCKEN hand happy head human ideas imagination JAMES Jews JOHN King knew LASSWELL Lenin LEONARD MOSLEY letter liberty Lincoln live look Lord MARK TWAIN means mind modern moral Napoleon nation nature never night palace passion peace person philosopher political reason religion revolution Roman sense sexual SIGMUND FREUD slave social society speech Stalin talk things THOMAS THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY thought tion truth turn Venice VOLTAIRE WINSTON CHURCHILL women words young
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Proverbs are Never Out of Season: Popular Wisdom in the Modern Age Wolfgang Mieder Vista de fragmentos - 1993 |
Proverbs are Never Out of Season: Popular Wisdom in the Modern Age Wolfgang Mieder Vista de fragmentos - 1993 |