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... offer great diffi- culty , but of ancestral instincts , shades of feeling that they have absorbed with their mothers ' milk , and innate attitudes which the foreigner can never quite seize . It is hard enough for us to [ 101 ] THE ...
... offer great diffi- culty , but of ancestral instincts , shades of feeling that they have absorbed with their mothers ' milk , and innate attitudes which the foreigner can never quite seize . It is hard enough for us to [ 101 ] THE ...
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... offered a better subject of discourse than the novel of character or adventure . The intelligent critics , the more serious novel read- ers , have since then given most of their ... offer something new in technique [ 216 ] THE SUMMING UP.
... offered a better subject of discourse than the novel of character or adventure . The intelligent critics , the more serious novel read- ers , have since then given most of their ... offer something new in technique [ 216 ] THE SUMMING UP.
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... offer me the final and absolute freedom . Notwith- standing , I am willing enough to go on living so long as the doctors can keep me in tolerable health ; I enjoy the spectacle of the world and it interests me to see what is going to ...
... offer me the final and absolute freedom . Notwith- standing , I am willing enough to go on living so long as the doctors can keep me in tolerable health ; I enjoy the spectacle of the world and it interests me to see what is going to ...
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