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Familiar Studies of Men and Books

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...with trepidation. Since no bones were broken, the second was launched with greater confidence. So, by insensible degrees, a young man of our generatio... ...rent results, even with a critic so warmly interested in their favour. The great contemporary master of wordmanship, and indeed of all literary arts a... .... But second, there is a certain class, professors of that low morality so greatly more distressing than the better sort of vice, to whom you must nev... ...leep overtook them as they lay; and when they awoke, “the east was already white” for their last morning in Japan. They seized a fisherman’s boat and ... ...en supper had been despatched and fairly washed down, we may suppose, with white Baigneux or red Beaune, which were favourite wines among the fellowsh... ...he was put to the question by water. He who had tossed off so many cups of white Baigneux or red Beaune, now drank water through linen folds, until hi... ... let us say better – a common heresy. For people are not most conscious of brotherhood when they continue languidly together in one creed, but when, w...

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