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Page 62
... doubt is his capacity for expression.'11 Doubt also promotes an unrestricted sense of possibility : if nothing is certain , then , equally , nothing is impossible . Herein lies so much of the speculative detachment that must have made ...
... doubt is his capacity for expression.'11 Doubt also promotes an unrestricted sense of possibility : if nothing is certain , then , equally , nothing is impossible . Herein lies so much of the speculative detachment that must have made ...
Page 85
... doubt that as a young man Sterne took his career in the Church seriously and hopefully . But , a few months before the publica- tion of Tristram Shandy , he answered advice to be cautious with his outspoken book thus : ' But suppose ...
... doubt that as a young man Sterne took his career in the Church seriously and hopefully . But , a few months before the publica- tion of Tristram Shandy , he answered advice to be cautious with his outspoken book thus : ' But suppose ...
Page 271
... doubt of the real authorship , but Griffith had known Sterne and observed him carefully so that the Posthumous Works need not be discarded entirely . * Griffith at * The Posthumous Works is generally a miserable imitation of Sterne's ...
... doubt of the real authorship , but Griffith had known Sterne and observed him carefully so that the Posthumous Works need not be discarded entirely . * Griffith at * The Posthumous Works is generally a miserable imitation of Sterne's ...
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS page xiii | 1 |
When They Begot Me | 33 |
Heygomad | 45 |
Copyright | |
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