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... give forth , in the terms of life , the varied experiences that have become one's own . If this assumption be true ... gives man his highest joy and that marks him as a distinctly social being . The vast structure of society is the ...
... give forth , in the terms of life , the varied experiences that have become one's own . If this assumption be true ... gives man his highest joy and that marks him as a distinctly social being . The vast structure of society is the ...
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... give the crucial moment in a story with point , rather than to tell the whole story aimlessly ; all these things lead in turn to a sense of proportion , or the relation between an important point and the time and space allotted to its ...
... give the crucial moment in a story with point , rather than to tell the whole story aimlessly ; all these things lead in turn to a sense of proportion , or the relation between an important point and the time and space allotted to its ...
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... gives a zest to the lesson that nothing else does . Epistolary 7. The form that most happily employs the per- Writing and the Personal sonal element in composition and that cultivates ease , Element grace , and fluency of expression is ...
... gives a zest to the lesson that nothing else does . Epistolary 7. The form that most happily employs the per- Writing and the Personal sonal element in composition and that cultivates ease , Element grace , and fluency of expression is ...
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... em- ployments , they meet on a human plane , and their studies pursued in common with other children give The School Rich in Motives for Letters them a basis for interchange of thought . There is 13 LETTERS AND LETTER WRITING.
... em- ployments , they meet on a human plane , and their studies pursued in common with other children give The School Rich in Motives for Letters them a basis for interchange of thought . There is 13 LETTERS AND LETTER WRITING.
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... give me a smile , I hope , and my beloved Toto . Good - by for the present , my Didine . Keep this letter . When you are grown up , I shall be old , you will show it to me , we shall love each other dearly ; when you are old , you will ...
... give me a smile , I hope , and my beloved Toto . Good - by for the present , my Didine . Keep this letter . When you are grown up , I shall be old , you will show it to me , we shall love each other dearly ; when you are old , you will ...
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Page 99 - I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
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Page 63 - I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary ' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind...
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