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No one has ever lived a more intensely academic life . His home background had no- thing to offer him : he was a fastidious scholarly type , incon- gruously born into the Hogarthian world of commercial London .
No one has ever lived a more intensely academic life . His home background had no- thing to offer him : he was a fastidious scholarly type , incon- gruously born into the Hogarthian world of commercial London .
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The Ediphone dictating machine , it must be admitted , was a great attraction , but more than that was the desire to have preserved in writing what had so long lived precariously by memory only . Some people I have known to come on foot ...
The Ediphone dictating machine , it must be admitted , was a great attraction , but more than that was the desire to have preserved in writing what had so long lived precariously by memory only . Some people I have known to come on foot ...
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Stout retired from his chair in 1936. Later , he went to a young country and entered with characteristic zest into the enjoyment of new ways of life . There he lived and talked , as he had always lived and talked , in the main with men ...
Stout retired from his chair in 1936. Later , he went to a young country and entered with characteristic zest into the enjoyment of new ways of life . There he lived and talked , as he had always lived and talked , in the main with men ...
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CORRESPONDING FELLOWS 1945 | 4 |
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS By Sir John Clapham | 12 |
THE POETRY OF THOMAS GRAY Warton Lecture on English Poetry | 43 |
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