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A child's guide to reading (1909)

Macy, John Albert, 1877-1932 · New York : Baker & Taylor · leaf 36

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will recall John Stuart Mills experience inreading Wordsworth. Mill was a man of letters aswell as a scientific economist and philosopher, andwe expect to find that men of letters have been nour-ished on literature; reading must necessarily havebeen a large part of their professional… … DICKENS The Purpose of Reading tions point to a thousand different careers in theworld of action. Lincoln was not primarily a man of letters, al-though he wrote noble prose on occasion, and the artof expression was important, perhaps indispensable,in his political success. He read deeply in the…

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