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W. SOMER MAUGHAI. 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 ...
W. SOMER MAUGHAI. 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 ...
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... spirit new avenues of beauty and enabled it to get into touch with the mystical kingdom of God . They claimed that it strengthened the character , purified it from its human grossness and brought to him who did not avoid but sought it a ...
... spirit new avenues of beauty and enabled it to get into touch with the mystical kingdom of God . They claimed that it strengthened the character , purified it from its human grossness and brought to him who did not avoid but sought it a ...
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... spirit in the likeness of a river that forces its way through the jungle of matter ; but river is ngle and jungle is river , for river and jungle are one . It does not seem impossible that the biologists will in the future succeed in ...
... spirit in the likeness of a river that forces its way through the jungle of matter ; but river is ngle and jungle is river , for river and jungle are one . It does not seem impossible that the biologists will in the future succeed in ...
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