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Page 367
... summer days ! We should have more moral courage , and do as Carlyle bids us in his old solemn way : " But above all , where thou findest Ignorance , Stupidity , Brute - mindedness , attack it , I say ; smite it , wisely , unwearily ...
... summer days ! We should have more moral courage , and do as Carlyle bids us in his old solemn way : " But above all , where thou findest Ignorance , Stupidity , Brute - mindedness , attack it , I say ; smite it , wisely , unwearily ...
Page 368
... summer . It will be ages before the village carpenter will come with his timber cart and draw the tree away . A Gloucestershire man cannot do a job like this in under two years ; they are always so busy , you see , in Gloucestershire ...
... summer . It will be ages before the village carpenter will come with his timber cart and draw the tree away . A Gloucestershire man cannot do a job like this in under two years ; they are always so busy , you see , in Gloucestershire ...
Page 375
... summer sunshine sparkles on them . It is their bare , silvered trunks that give the special charm to these hanging woods . They stand out from dark recesses filled with alder and beech and ivy - mantled firs , rising in bold but ...
... summer sunshine sparkles on them . It is their bare , silvered trunks that give the special charm to these hanging woods . They stand out from dark recesses filled with alder and beech and ivy - mantled firs , rising in bold but ...
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