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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 the emotional
...
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 the emotional
...
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est reluctance that I have even served on committees formed to effect some aim
of passing interest . Thinking that not the whole of life was long enough to learn to
write well , I have been unwilling to give to other activities time that I so much ...
est reluctance that I have even served on committees formed to effect some aim
of passing interest . Thinking that not the whole of life was long enough to learn to
write well , I have been unwilling to give to other activities time that I so much ...
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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
can ...
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
can ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | Doubleday, Doran & Company, Incorporated, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 21 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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