Infinite riches: gems from a lifetime of readingMcGraw-Hill, 1979 - 588 páginas Elizabeth I's last great speech, an account of Marco Polo's return to Venice, and writings by Mencken, Wilde, and Twain are among the selections included in a collection of excerpts that represents Rosten's lifelong love for the printed word |
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... Europe to near chaos. It is no exaggeration to credit the empire with the preservation of European civilization from ... Europe, with unforeseeable consequences, while it was still in an amorphous state. The Slavonic East would doubtless ...
... Europe to near chaos. It is no exaggeration to credit the empire with the preservation of European civilization from ... Europe, with unforeseeable consequences, while it was still in an amorphous state. The Slavonic East would doubtless ...
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... Europe CONSTITUTION James Madison reminds us that we could dispense with laws and punishments only "if men were ... Europe and Africa and expressed the idea that Europe, Africa, and the Americas are fragments of a great primordial 116 ...
... Europe CONSTITUTION James Madison reminds us that we could dispense with laws and punishments only "if men were ... Europe and Africa and expressed the idea that Europe, Africa, and the Americas are fragments of a great primordial 116 ...
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... Europe at the end of 1347 or the beginning of 1348 by Genoese ships trading with the Black Sea. No one knew its cause or even its nature, but it is now believed to have been the bubonic plague — a flea- borne epidemic of the black rat ...
... Europe at the end of 1347 or the beginning of 1348 by Genoese ships trading with the Black Sea. No one knew its cause or even its nature, but it is now believed to have been the bubonic plague — a flea- borne epidemic of the black rat ...
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A. J. P. TAYLOR ALBERT EINSTEIN American ARISTOTLE BAMBER GASCOIGNE beauty believe BENJAMIN BERTRAND RUSSELL Capitalism century Chinese Christian civilization Copyright court death democracy dream earth economic enemy England English Essays Europe everything excerpts existence experience eyes face fact faith feel freedom G. K. CHESTERTON GEORGE GEORGE MIKES H. L. MENCKEN hand happy head human ideas imagination JAMES Jews JOHN King knew LASSWELL Lenin LEONARD MOSLEY letter liberty Lincoln live look Lord MARK TWAIN means mind modern moral Napoleon nation nature never night palace passion peace person philosopher political reason religion revolution Roman sense sexual SIGMUND FREUD slave social society speech Stalin talk things THOMAS THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY thought tion truth turn Venice VOLTAIRE WINSTON CHURCHILL women words young
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Proverbs are Never Out of Season: Popular Wisdom in the Modern Age Wolfgang Mieder Vista de fragmentos - 1993 |
Proverbs are Never Out of Season: Popular Wisdom in the Modern Age Wolfgang Mieder Vista de fragmentos - 1993 |