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... d'ensemble ( 1971 ) But stay - the present and the future - they are another's ; but the past - that at least is ours . W.S. Gilbert , The Gondoliers ( 1889 ) List of Illustrations The Originals Preface Contents I POETS AND.
... d'ensemble ( 1971 ) But stay - the present and the future - they are another's ; but the past - that at least is ours . W.S. Gilbert , The Gondoliers ( 1889 ) List of Illustrations The Originals Preface Contents I POETS AND.
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... least they have a unity . They are all concerned with social and cultural change and , equally important , with how it was perceived , particularly after the advent of steam- driven industry . The essays and papers in this volume follow ...
... least they have a unity . They are all concerned with social and cultural change and , equally important , with how it was perceived , particularly after the advent of steam- driven industry . The essays and papers in this volume follow ...
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... least demography ) and with literature , sensing that the gulf between writing in the ' social sciences ' and ' literature ' is as wide as the ' two - cultures ' gulf between ' sciences ' and ' the arts ' . Several essays in this volume ...
... least demography ) and with literature , sensing that the gulf between writing in the ' social sciences ' and ' literature ' is as wide as the ' two - cultures ' gulf between ' sciences ' and ' the arts ' . Several essays in this volume ...
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... least , of their expositors and adherents considered to be the key to the ' science of society ' . I have never believed that it was or is , or at least that it was or is the only key ; and for this reason several essays in this second ...
... least , of their expositors and adherents considered to be the key to the ' science of society ' . I have never believed that it was or is , or at least that it was or is the only key ; and for this reason several essays in this second ...
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... least ' nonsense ' literature , often accompanied by sketches which are as revealing as the texts . We often seem to be untapping the unconscious here . A curious element of fantasy can creep into a volume of twentieth- century ...
... least ' nonsense ' literature , often accompanied by sketches which are as revealing as the texts . We often seem to be untapping the unconscious here . A curious element of fantasy can creep into a volume of twentieth- century ...
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