'While the 'boy' waits'.Hardwicke, 1879 - 340 pages |
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... turn up in the shape of raw 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 ...
... turn up in the shape of raw 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 ...
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... turn of many an ambitious or prolific news- monger during the season when newspapers , maga- zines , and periodicals of every description are particularly empty , and editors and sub - editors are especially likely to be taken unawares ...
... turn of many an ambitious or prolific news- monger during the season when newspapers , maga- zines , and periodicals of every description are particularly empty , and editors and sub - editors are especially likely to be taken unawares ...
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... turn , and bespeak patronage for purveyors of every conceivable commodity . One does not order a complete set of masticators from Professor Odontos because the advantages of his system are set forth in the choicest of phrases , and with ...
... turn , and bespeak patronage for purveyors of every conceivable commodity . One does not order a complete set of masticators from Professor Odontos because the advantages of his system are set forth in the choicest of phrases , and with ...
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... Turn of the Toss , ' " Mangnall's " Trousers are the cheapest , " The Royal Blank Theatre is " the most accessible house in all London , " are made with the simple purpose of piling up the assertions of a truth which it is desired ...
... Turn of the Toss , ' " Mangnall's " Trousers are the cheapest , " The Royal Blank Theatre is " the most accessible house in all London , " are made with the simple purpose of piling up the assertions of a truth which it is desired ...
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... turns it into a precept . He makes everybody and everything say what he wishes , and thus creates a " truth " in his own interest . One of the most astounding examples of success in this process of faith , if not fact , creation , is to ...
... turns it into a precept . He makes everybody and everything say what he wishes , and thus creates a " truth " in his own interest . One of the most astounding examples of success in this process of faith , if not fact , creation , is to ...
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