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... spirit is willing , the flesh is weak ) , I have continued with increasing assiduity to try to write better . I discovered my limitations and it seemed to me that the only sensible thing was to aim at what excellence I could within them ...
... spirit is willing , the flesh is weak ) , I have continued with increasing assiduity to try to write better . I discovered my limitations and it seemed to me that the only sensible thing was to aim at what excellence I could within them ...
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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 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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