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to time the spirit of the language has reasserted itself , as it did with Dryden and the writers of Queen Anne , it was only to be submerged once more by the pomposities of Gibbon and Dr Johnson . When English prose recovered simplicity ...
to time the spirit of the language has reasserted itself , as it did with Dryden and the writers of Queen Anne , it was only to be submerged once more by the pomposities of Gibbon and Dr Johnson . When English prose recovered simplicity ...
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They claimed that it increased sym- pathy and enhanced the sensibilities . They claimed that it opened to the spirit new avenues of beauty and enabled it to get into touch with the mystical kingdom of God .
They claimed that it increased sym- pathy and enhanced the sensibilities . They claimed that it opened to the spirit new avenues of beauty and enabled it to get into touch with the mystical kingdom of God .
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and spirit that are offered by the philosophers for the consideration of the plain man that which still seems to me most satisfactory is Spinoza's concep- tion that substance thinking and substance extended are one and the same ...
and spirit that are offered by the philosophers for the consideration of the plain man that which still seems to me most satisfactory is Spinoza's concep- tion that substance thinking and substance extended are one and the same ...
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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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