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Page 25
... least afford to wait , bative spirit of colonial Britons . We like and their possession is not essential to to flatter ourselves that we are a most her welfare . peace - loving people ; but whilst we are always able to explain , with ...
... least afford to wait , bative spirit of colonial Britons . We like and their possession is not essential to to flatter ourselves that we are a most her welfare . peace - loving people ; but whilst we are always able to explain , with ...
Page 139
... least learn to suspend our dislikes and our prejudices till we are in some measure entitled to have them . There are certain writers in our literature who have come to be called classics . What is a classic ? A classic is , I suppose ...
... least learn to suspend our dislikes and our prejudices till we are in some measure entitled to have them . There are certain writers in our literature who have come to be called classics . What is a classic ? A classic is , I suppose ...
Page 140
... least what we should try to like , or at least to understand the reason of other people's liking . -- daughter to a class to read a book ? " asks the aggrieved parent . " She can do that at home . Why should I pay that professor to do ...
... least what we should try to like , or at least to understand the reason of other people's liking . -- daughter to a class to read a book ? " asks the aggrieved parent . " She can do that at home . Why should I pay that professor to do ...
Contents
THE OLD MISSIONARY By Sir William | 49 |
A Highland School Forty Years Ago | 59 |
THE MORAVIANS AND THE LEPERS | 63 |
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