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Page 56
... asked myself whether it was possible for them to have forgotten their humanity so completely as their words suggested . I have wished that beside his bunch of flowers at the Old Bailey , his lordship had a packet of toilet paper . It ...
... asked myself whether it was possible for them to have forgotten their humanity so completely as their words suggested . I have wished that beside his bunch of flowers at the Old Bailey , his lordship had a packet of toilet paper . It ...
Page 73
... asked me what I would like as a present , I answered with- out hesitation Herbert Spencer's First Principles . I read it with complacency . But I was impatient of Spencer's maudlin belief in progress : the world I knew was going from ...
... asked me what I would like as a present , I answered with- out hesitation Herbert Spencer's First Principles . I read it with complacency . But I was impatient of Spencer's maudlin belief in progress : the world I knew was going from ...
Page 157
... asked to be- lieve . There are a great many people , members of the various professions and cultured women , who clothe their thoughts in grammatical , well - chosen language and can say what they want to in the right words , put in the ...
... asked to be- lieve . There are a great many people , members of the various professions and cultured women , who clothe their thoughts in grammatical , well - chosen language and can say what they want to in the right words , put in the ...
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