'While the 'boy' waits'.Hardwicke, 1879 - 340 pages |
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Page 5
... material for a little bit of banter on ' Change or in the counting - house . A very eclectic but merciless reader is the genuine money - maker . The humble clerk reads chiefly the police reports and the scan- dal . The young gentleman ...
... material for a little bit of banter on ' Change or in the counting - house . A very eclectic but merciless reader is the genuine money - maker . The humble clerk reads chiefly the police reports and the scan- dal . The young gentleman ...
Page 16
... material . His qualification for the duty is a facility for the rapid stringing together of sentences more or less like English , and the occa- sional possibility of throwing in an idea should any such strange commodity happen at any ...
... material . His qualification for the duty is a facility for the rapid stringing together of sentences more or less like English , and the occa- sional possibility of throwing in an idea should any such strange commodity happen at any ...
Page 20
... material , which everybody in the most remote degree connected with the press would seem to possess , with anything which will induce the public to read it . The table - talker who has a good story to tell can generally manage to bring ...
... material , which everybody in the most remote degree connected with the press would seem to possess , with anything which will induce the public to read it . The table - talker who has a good story to tell can generally manage to bring ...
Page 26
... material does not excuse the substitution of pestilent nonsense for sober reason , or fiction for fact . Nor can any scarcity offer a respectable apology for dressing up such news as there is with fanciful and highly - coloured ...
... material does not excuse the substitution of pestilent nonsense for sober reason , or fiction for fact . Nor can any scarcity offer a respectable apology for dressing up such news as there is with fanciful and highly - coloured ...
Page 229
... material gains of the victorious nation need to be cultivated ; and the issue of future struggles will , in fact , depend upon the use made of the last . In this way a triumphant power comes to possess extended claims to supremacy ...
... material gains of the victorious nation need to be cultivated ; and the issue of future struggles will , in fact , depend upon the use made of the last . In this way a triumphant power comes to possess extended claims to supremacy ...
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