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Page 45
... learned to read Persian ; and , years later , for a book I was then writing , he gave me a sentence from the Rubáiyát that Fitzgerald had failed to translate and that I quoted on my last page . * Leading me down a path , he pointed out ...
... learned to read Persian ; and , years later , for a book I was then writing , he gave me a sentence from the Rubáiyát that Fitzgerald had failed to translate and that I quoted on my last page . * Leading me down a path , he pointed out ...
Page 48
... learned with regret of his subsequent misadventures . His views were judged erroneous , if not positively heretical , by his Jesuit superiors , and the faithful warned against accepting them . That Teilhard de Chardin should have been ...
... learned with regret of his subsequent misadventures . His views were judged erroneous , if not positively heretical , by his Jesuit superiors , and the faithful warned against accepting them . That Teilhard de Chardin should have been ...
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... learned Cowley Father , just when she had entered her seventh decade.13 She was then still recovering from two successive shocks the wartime destruction of her flat , her whole library and nearly all her household goods , and the loss ...
... learned Cowley Father , just when she had entered her seventh decade.13 She was then still recovering from two successive shocks the wartime destruction of her flat , her whole library and nearly all her household goods , and the loss ...
Contents
The Desire to Please | 25 |
The Disinterested Gift | 47 |
The Death of the Lion | 66 |
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