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Page 159
... deal of suffering in my time and endured a good deal myself . When I was a medical student I had occasion in the wards of St. Thomas's Hospital to see the effects of suffering on patients of all sorts . During the war I had the same ...
... deal of suffering in my time and endured a good deal myself . When I was a medical student I had occasion in the wards of St. Thomas's Hospital to see the effects of suffering on patients of all sorts . During the war I had the same ...
Page 230
... deal of mortification on that account insists that he is proud of it . His father was first mate on a tea clipper running to China , who eventually settled in Moulmein and married a Burmese . E. came to Mandalay as interpreter in 1885 ...
... deal of mortification on that account insists that he is proud of it . His father was first mate on a tea clipper running to China , who eventually settled in Moulmein and married a Burmese . E. came to Mandalay as interpreter in 1885 ...
Page 360
... deal with the only things that are important to man . They exalt and tranquillise . To read them is to sail with a gentle breeze in an inland sea studded with a thousand isles . Ten years ago I set down haltingly in The Summing Up such ...
... deal with the only things that are important to man . They exalt and tranquillise . To read them is to sail with a gentle breeze in an inland sea studded with a thousand isles . Ten years ago I set down haltingly in The Summing Up such ...
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