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Page 64
I suppose that you can learn a good deal about human nature in a solicitor ' s
office ; but there on the whole you have to deal with men in full control of
themselves . They lie perhaps as much as they lie to the doctor , but they lie more
...
I suppose that you can learn a good deal about human nature in a solicitor ' s
office ; but there on the whole you have to deal with men in full control of
themselves . They lie perhaps as much as they lie to the doctor , but they lie more
...
Page 298
I have tried to find out from the writers on æsthetics what it is in human nature that
makes it possible for us to get the emotion of beauty and what exactly this
emotion is . It is usual enough to talk of the æsthetic instinct : the term seems to
give it ...
I have tried to find out from the writers on æsthetics what it is in human nature that
makes it possible for us to get the emotion of beauty and what exactly this
emotion is . It is usual enough to talk of the æsthetic instinct : the term seems to
give it ...
Page 303
It is not possible to maintain that a form of sensibility that is shared but by the
elect can be a necessity of human life . Yet that is what the æsthetics claim . I
must confess that in my foolish youth when I considered that art ( in which I
included the ...
It is not possible to maintain that a form of sensibility that is shared but by the
elect can be a necessity of human life . Yet that is what the æsthetics claim . I
must confess that in my foolish youth when I considered that art ( in which I
included the ...
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| Title | THE SUMMING UP |
| Author | W. SOMER MAUGHAI |
| Published | 1938 |
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