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... experience of life to write of contemporary manners ; history provided him with a story and characters and the romantic fervour of his young blood gave him the dash that was needed for this sort of composition . I know now that this was ...
... experience of life to write of contemporary manners ; history provided him with a story and characters and the romantic fervour of his young blood gave him the dash that was needed for this sort of composition . I know now that this was ...
Page 244
... experience like that muscular sense that the physiol . ogists not so long ago discovered , which they have absorbed from the notions current in the society in which they live and which has been faintly modified by their own experience ...
... experience like that muscular sense that the physiol . ogists not so long ago discovered , which they have absorbed from the notions current in the society in which they live and which has been faintly modified by their own experience ...
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... experience so often , and in terms so similar , that I do not see how one can deny its reality . Indeed , I have myself had on one occasion an experience that I could only describe in the words the mystics have used to describe their ...
... experience so often , and in terms so similar , that I do not see how one can deny its reality . Indeed , I have myself had on one occasion an experience that I could only describe in the words the mystics have used to describe their ...
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