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... Learn your Homer and your Solon . Get poetry and law into your brain ; the one will teach you the pleasure and peril of life , the other its method and management . " " But really , John , " says Mrs. Silchester THE SQUIRE AND HIS WIFE .
... Learn your Homer and your Solon . Get poetry and law into your brain ; the one will teach you the pleasure and peril of life , the other its method and management . " " But really , John , " says Mrs. Silchester THE SQUIRE AND HIS WIFE .
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Mortimer Collins. " But really , John , " says Mrs. Silchester , " would you like our son and daughter not to know reading and writing ? " 66 YES , " he replied , with an emphasis that deserves small capitals . 66 My dear girl , you talk ...
Mortimer Collins. " But really , John , " says Mrs. Silchester , " would you like our son and daughter not to know reading and writing ? " 66 YES , " he replied , with an emphasis that deserves small capitals . 66 My dear girl , you talk ...
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... John Silchester , gravely , " English has no alphabet . English has a rude a b c , I admit , just as Etruscan had a rude l m n , whence the word element . here am I with a girl and a boy to educate― and I am told that the proper way to ...
... John Silchester , gravely , " English has no alphabet . English has a rude a b c , I admit , just as Etruscan had a rude l m n , whence the word element . here am I with a girl and a boy to educate― and I am told that the proper way to ...
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... John Silchester's judgment , when not IN rebellious about the alphabet , the true Olympus was a library . There you were be- yond reach of all the miserable windy influ- ences which surround the outer world . There you could enjoy life ...
... John Silchester's judgment , when not IN rebellious about the alphabet , the true Olympus was a library . There you were be- yond reach of all the miserable windy influ- ences which surround the outer world . There you could enjoy life ...
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... intellectual wealth inside . " That he was inconsistent with himself is manifest , but the best men have their incon- sistencies . He said this , or something like it , to Dr. John Sterne . The Doctor was a very OLYMPUS . 31.
... intellectual wealth inside . " That he was inconsistent with himself is manifest , but the best men have their incon- sistencies . He said this , or something like it , to Dr. John Sterne . The Doctor was a very OLYMPUS . 31.
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