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Page 97
... At the best it is but a poor return for all that the East has taught us - that is , for all we ever knew of decorative Art - to flood her bazaars with G the cheap and tawdry wares that are dumped weekly out THE PHILOSOPHY OF ART 97.
... At the best it is but a poor return for all that the East has taught us - that is , for all we ever knew of decorative Art - to flood her bazaars with G the cheap and tawdry wares that are dumped weekly out THE PHILOSOPHY OF ART 97.
Page 139
... knew very well that my health would suffer permanently , as it has done , by it . Few know how many weeks , and even months , of the year I have had to pass on my back , doing my work in bed - where , indeed , I am writing this . I ...
... knew very well that my health would suffer permanently , as it has done , by it . Few know how many weeks , and even months , of the year I have had to pass on my back , doing my work in bed - where , indeed , I am writing this . I ...
Page 155
... knew him well from his parliamentary days , to select from these twelve hundred pages of biography those traits and episodes which most truly reveal Lord Curzon to a generation which only knew him in his last phase , and to its ...
... knew him well from his parliamentary days , to select from these twelve hundred pages of biography those traits and episodes which most truly reveal Lord Curzon to a generation which only knew him in his last phase , and to its ...
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