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Page 26
I made up my mind that this was the perfect way to write and I started to work on
him in the same way as I had done with Jeremy Taylor . I chose The Tale of a Tub
. It is said that when the Dean re - read it in his old age he cried : ' What genius I ...
I made up my mind that this was the perfect way to write and I started to work on
him in the same way as I had done with Jeremy Taylor . I chose The Tale of a Tub
. It is said that when the Dean re - read it in his old age he cried : ' What genius I ...
Page 146
The part then is inadequately acted and the balance of the play jeopardized ; a
scene that has a definite value is thrown away because it is improperly played . It
often happens also that the perfect actor for a part will not play it because it is too
...
The part then is inadequately acted and the balance of the play jeopardized ; a
scene that has a definite value is thrown away because it is improperly played . It
often happens also that the perfect actor for a part will not play it because it is too
...
Page 268
... and I will ask the reader to have patience with me while I briefly consider them .
One of them assumes that man has an idea of a perfect being ; and since
perfection includes existence a perfect being must exist . Another maintains that
every ...
... and I will ask the reader to have patience with me while I briefly consider them .
One of them assumes that man has an idea of a perfect being ; and since
perfection includes existence a perfect being must exist . Another maintains that
every ...
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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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