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... freedom had so altered men's views on the importance of chastity that jealousy was no longer a theme for tragedy ... the nature of the audience is for the drama- tist the most important of the conventions within which he must work .
... freedom had so altered men's views on the importance of chastity that jealousy was no longer a theme for tragedy ... the nature of the audience is for the drama- tist the most important of the conventions within which he must work .
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It can only give him two good things : one , the more important by far , is the free- dom to follow his own bent , and the other is con- fidence in himself . Notwithstanding his pretension and his susceptible vanity the author when he ...
It can only give him two good things : one , the more important by far , is the free- dom to follow his own bent , and the other is con- fidence in himself . Notwithstanding his pretension and his susceptible vanity the author when he ...
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Since , inspired by Kuno Fischer's lectures , I began to read Schopenhauer I have read pretty well all the most important works of the great classical philoso- phers . Though there is in them a great deal that I did not understand ...
Since , inspired by Kuno Fischer's lectures , I began to read Schopenhauer I have read pretty well all the most important works of the great classical philoso- phers . Though there is in them a great deal that I did not understand ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | W. Heinemann, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0434456101, 9780434456109 |
| Length | 317 pages |
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