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Their flashy effects distract the mind . They destroy their persuasiveness ; you would not believe a man was very intent on ploughing a furrow if he carried a hoop with him and jumped through it at every other step .
Their flashy effects distract the mind . They destroy their persuasiveness ; you would not believe a man was very intent on ploughing a furrow if he carried a hoop with him and jumped through it at every other step .
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Verse has a specific dramatic value as anyone can see by observing in himself the thrilling effect of a tirade in one of Racine's plays or of any of Shakespeare's great set pieces ; and this is independent of the sense ; it is due to ...
Verse has a specific dramatic value as anyone can see by observing in himself the thrilling effect of a tirade in one of Racine's plays or of any of Shakespeare's great set pieces ; and this is independent of the sense ; it is due to ...
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Hume long ago showed that there was no intrinsic connection between cause and effect which could be perceived by the mind ; and of late the Principle of Indeterminacy , by bringing to view certain events to which apparently no causes ...
Hume long ago showed that there was no intrinsic connection between cause and effect which could be perceived by the mind ; and of late the Principle of Indeterminacy , by bringing to view certain events to which apparently no causes ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | Literary Guild of America, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 26 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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