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I hesitated , because I knew that he judged from a standpoint of excellence that is
hard to attain ; and though I was aware that he had a profound knowledge of
Elizabethan literature , his inordinate admiration for Esther Waters made me ...
I hesitated , because I knew that he judged from a standpoint of excellence that is
hard to attain ; and though I was aware that he had a profound knowledge of
Elizabethan literature , his inordinate admiration for Esther Waters made me ...
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... an elementary knowledge of science and scientific method . Till then I had
been concerned only with art and literature . It was a very limited knowledge , for
the demands of the curriculum at that time were small , but at all events it showed
...
... an elementary knowledge of science and scientific method . Till then I had
been concerned only with art and literature . It was a very limited knowledge , for
the demands of the curriculum at that time were small , but at all events it showed
...
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the past needs not only a vast knowledge but an effort of imagination that is
hardly to be expected in the young . I should have said that the truth was exactly
contrary to what Andrew Lang said . The novelist should turn to the historical
novel ...
the past needs not only a vast knowledge but an effort of imagination that is
hardly to be expected in the young . I should have said that the truth was exactly
contrary to what Andrew Lang said . The novelist should turn to the historical
novel ...
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Bibliographic information
| 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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