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Kessinger Publishing, May 28, 2005 - 384 pages
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Selected pages

Contents

Thomas De Quincey
9
Robekt South
58
Chables H Spuegeon
81
Recollections of Judge Story
97
Moral Grahamism
117
Strength and Health
129
Professorships of Books and Reading 186
136
YIII The Morality of Good Living
159
Writing for the Press
256
The Study of the Modern Languages
263
Working by Rule
272
Too Much Speaking
279
A Forgotten Wit 287
287
Are We AngloSaxon?
299
A Day at Oxford
307
An Hour at Christs Hospital
327

The Illusions of History
171
Homilies on Early Rising
229
Literary Triflers
237
BookBuying
336
A Pinch of Snuff
347
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Joseph Story: a collection of writings by and about an eminent American jurist
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TitleHours With Men and Books
AuthorWilliam Mathews
Editionreprint
PublisherKessinger Publishing, 2005
ISBN1417991798, 9781417991792
Length384 pages
  
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