English miscellany: a symposium of history, literature and the arts, Volume 3British Council, 1952 - Art |
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Page 145
It was not , however , impossible for a person of lowly social origin to succeed .
Sydney Smith paints the following picture of the ecclesiastical career of a baker's
son : Young Crumpet is sent to school — takes to his books spends the best
years ...
It was not , however , impossible for a person of lowly social origin to succeed .
Sydney Smith paints the following picture of the ecclesiastical career of a baker's
son : Young Crumpet is sent to school — takes to his books spends the best
years ...
Page 158
abstract value of which one approves , but has , to be real , to be embodied in
one's own person and daily acts . Indeed , the more critical a situation , the less
the opinions a man expresses matter in comparison to his behavior . As a
warning ...
abstract value of which one approves , but has , to be real , to be embodied in
one's own person and daily acts . Indeed , the more critical a situation , the less
the opinions a man expresses matter in comparison to his behavior . As a
warning ...
Page 269
So ignorant are the people in this district that Padre Francesco told me that when
he was the Priest who received the name of every person who was married in the
Diocese , for two years only one woman in all that time had he seen who could ...
So ignorant are the people in this district that Padre Francesco told me that when
he was the Priest who received the name of every person who was married in the
Diocese , for two years only one woman in all that time had he seen who could ...
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