The Minor Moralist: Some Essays on the Art of Everyday ConductE. Arnold, 1903 - 247 pàgines |
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Pàgina 36
... woman are not all that their fond parents imagined they would be . This deficiency being disagreeably and crudely revealed by some peculiarity or lapse of manners , and flying in the face of some idiosyncrasy of the parents ' own , is ...
... woman are not all that their fond parents imagined they would be . This deficiency being disagreeably and crudely revealed by some peculiarity or lapse of manners , and flying in the face of some idiosyncrasy of the parents ' own , is ...
Pàgina 43
... woman to pass her , pressed forward with all the impetus of her youthful vigour , so that the departing guest was fairly hurled back into the room , and had to wait to go out until the newcomer had pushed her way past her . This sort of ...
... woman to pass her , pressed forward with all the impetus of her youthful vigour , so that the departing guest was fairly hurled back into the room , and had to wait to go out until the newcomer had pushed her way past her . This sort of ...
Pàgina 48
... has been exercised by some home - grown precept of behaviour that they have been accustomed to hear from early years . How often you hear a man or woman say when explaining some course of conduct , 48 THE MINOR MORALIST.
... has been exercised by some home - grown precept of behaviour that they have been accustomed to hear from early years . How often you hear a man or woman say when explaining some course of conduct , 48 THE MINOR MORALIST.
Pàgina 49
... woman say when explaining some course of conduct , " My father and mother used " " always to say ... and then follows some rule of the road of life , which from its very simplicity has been useful where more elaborate exhortations have ...
... woman say when explaining some course of conduct , " My father and mother used " " always to say ... and then follows some rule of the road of life , which from its very simplicity has been useful where more elaborate exhortations have ...
Pàgina 92
... woman who once played the piano brilliantly , but does so no longer , to perform at a concert , she will say her fingers are too stiff . Ask a noted pedes- trian who is out of training to come with you for a mountain climb , he will ...
... woman who once played the piano brilliantly , but does so no longer , to perform at a concert , she will say her fingers are too stiff . Ask a noted pedes- trian who is out of training to come with you for a mountain climb , he will ...
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The Minor Moralist: Some Essays on the Art of Everyday Conduct Lady Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe Bell Visualització completa - 1903 |
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