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  • Title: 227
  • Author(s): Baron Ferdinand De RothChild
  • Date of creation: 1890
  • Extent: 2pp
  • Material: Paper
  • Physical Location: Waddesdon Manor

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DESULTORY DISCOURSES. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, Public speakers have often insisted on the advantages of desultory reading. I will go a step further, and state, unlikely as you may regard it at first, that desultory discourses or conversations will lead to similar satisfactory results. Now, what is the exact meaning of the word desultory? In his famous dictionary, Doctor John- son defines it as ‘unconnected, unsettled.” Take up any books that happen to come under your hand at any hour of the day, or under any circumstances, and let these books be either a work of fiction or travel, or a poem or a drama, read one day a portion of the one and the following day a portion of the other. This is desultory reading. But to arrive at any results you must read every day, say, for ten minutes at least, and, moreover, you must read attentively and diligently. It is not my purpose on this occasion to dwell on the advantages of reading, but, during the time , a eae EER
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