Alexis Rondeau

The Complete Harvard Classics - ALL 71 Volumes:: The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction: The Famous Anthology of the Greatest Works of World Literature

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Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman, William Penn, Juan Valera, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Alexander L. Kielland, and Presbourg Press

74 highlights · 2 notes · last read July 2023

Highlights I wrote a note on are shown in full. The other 72 are scrambled: the words are the author's, so here you only see where in the book I underlined something.

He had two sons, about to set out on their travels; he wish’d to have them first taught swimming, and proposed to gratify me handsomely if I would teach them.

Location 847

My note Valuable Skills have students and those who pay the teacher

I had form’d most of my ingenious acquaintance into a club of mutual improvement, which we called the Junto; we met on Friday evenings. The rules that I drew up required that every member, in his turn, should produce one or more queries on any point of Morals, Politics, or Natural Philosophy, to be discuss’d by the company; and once in three months produce and read an essay of his own writing, on any subject he pleased. Our debates were to be under the direction of a president, and to be conducted in the sincere spirit of inquiry after truth, without fondness for dispute, or desire of victory; and, to prevent warmth, all expressions of positiveness in opinions, or direct contradiction, were after some time made contraband, and prohibited under small pecuniary penalties.

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My note Wen hätte ich gerne im Club?