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... correspondence to - day . What remains , then , of value in them , if history and manners can be learned equally well from other sources as from the letters of the past , and if their style need not be copied ? How little - and yet how ...
... correspondence to - day . What remains , then , of value in them , if history and manners can be learned equally well from other sources as from the letters of the past , and if their style need not be copied ? How little - and yet how ...
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... correspondence , and the better your style the more welcome your letter . So it may be that , after all , hurry and noise and mech- anical devices need not finally destroy the elegance of the written word ; for its beauty is now invoked ...
... correspondence , and the better your style the more welcome your letter . So it may be that , after all , hurry and noise and mech- anical devices need not finally destroy the elegance of the written word ; for its beauty is now invoked ...
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... correspondence , which has the supreme merit of reflecting his mood of the moment with fatal accuracy . One cannot candidly say that all the letters are of great value ; those , for instance , dealing with the succession to the throne ...
... correspondence , which has the supreme merit of reflecting his mood of the moment with fatal accuracy . One cannot candidly say that all the letters are of great value ; those , for instance , dealing with the succession to the throne ...
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