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He seems but a bookish sort of bodie of Malcolm's sort.
By the simple accident of birth he was a Seventh Day Christian;[Pg 343] being of a bookish and unambitious turn, and of an indolent habit of body, mentally and physically unfitted for the life of a shop, he entered the ministry; in course of time he got this chapel, where he remained, tolerably satisfied with his lot in life, a simple, self-educated, mildly pious person, equipped with the phrases of his craft, and comforted with the consciousness of superiority and separation.
After all, Gore--like Clinton--is an unusually bookish politician, one who reads serious tomes on serious subjects and even tries to be a bit of an authority himself.
"), Apache helicopters, Ibrahim Rugova ("How can the bookish head of Kosovo's independence movement live down the shame of being shown on Serbian TV with Milosevic?
Once the interview began, this ideal FW would seem as familiar as an old friend, so that the INF always spoke in everyday terms instead of bookish formal ones.
Pierre suddenly saw an outlet for his excitement.
He hardened his heart against the senator who was introducing this set and narrow attitude into the deliberations of the nobility.
Pierre stepped forward and interrupted him.
He himself did not yet know what he would say, but he began to speak eagerly, occasionally lapsing into French or expressing himself in bookish Russian.
As this period draws to a close and the teens begin, the average normal child will not be bookish but should read and write well, know a few dozen well-chosen books, play several dozen games, be well started in one or more ancient and modern languages-if these must be studied at all, should know something of several industries and how to make many things he is interested in, belong to a few teams and societies, know much about nature in his environment, be able to sing and draw, should have memorized much more than he now does, and be acquainted, at least in story form, with the outlines of many of the best works in literature and the epochs and persons in history.
De Vinne says “italic is preferred by bookish men.
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