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قراءة كتاب From Pillar to Post: Leaves from a Lecturer's Note-Book
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اللغة: English
From Pillar to Post: Leaves from a Lecturer's Note-Book
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| "I shall have to borrow some of your manly courage to carry me through" | Frontispiece |
| "It was indeed a pretty sight to me!" | 21 |
| "Yes, and you are fifty years behind us in every other respect!" | 28 |
| I knew that I had met a "Southern Gentleman" | 31 |
| "The consciously superior person cannot last long on the lecture platform" | 43 |
| "If there's anything you want to know about Darwin's Origin of Species, you ask me!" | 60 |
| "I cannot say that his first remark was wholly cordial" | 70 |
| "I'm an Ohio man, and I'll cash the check for you on your looks" | 79 |
| In the last stages of poverty | 85 |
| "Suffering Centipedes!" he cried. "That man must have been brought up on the bottle!" | 93 |
| "The lecturer must deliver the goods!" | 100 |
| "They may 'go to sleep in his face'" | 103 |
| "I have been after 'em, suh; but it ain't no use" | 122 |
| "These men on the engines are great characters" | 130 |
| "Pile it on so thick that the lecturer has to struggle hard to make good" | 136 |
| "The last I saw of my kindly host" | 145 |
| "When he got through I could have qualified for a college degree on the subject of straw hats" | 162 |
| "She ast me was you so very comical," said he | 171 |
| "If yo're dealin' in brains, hit ain't likely yo' got enough to gib any away" | 185 |
| "A Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Locomotives would have had them indicted then and there" | 191 |
| "If it were possible to sweep a room clean with a welcoming wave of the hand—" | 199 |
| "Cannot sleep comfortably between the sheets of William James's pragmatic philosophy, dry as they are" | 202 |
| "If he had shifted his chewing gum to the other side, we should have plunged into the river" | 227 |
| "Laughter where tears would have been more appropriate" | 239 |
| "I found the building wholly dark" |