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... picture he does not care for ? There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in having ploughed a thousand fields . There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to ...
... picture he does not care for ? There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in having ploughed a thousand fields . There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to ...
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... picture of life in the novels of Anthony Trollope than in those of Charles Dickens . lxii Sometimes the writer must ask himself whether what he has written has any value except to himself and the question is perhaps urgent now when the ...
... picture of life in the novels of Anthony Trollope than in those of Charles Dickens . lxii Sometimes the writer must ask himself whether what he has written has any value except to himself and the question is perhaps urgent now when the ...
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... picture from fragments that they took here and there because they suited their purposes . This is the world of phenomena that they know . Reality is merely the hypothesis they have suggested as its oc- casion . It may be that they might ...
... picture from fragments that they took here and there because they suited their purposes . This is the world of phenomena that they know . Reality is merely the hypothesis they have suggested as its oc- casion . It may be that they might ...
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