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Page 155
... effect to balance a phrase or give emotion to a paragraph . And now G. B. Shaw and H. G. Wells have taken him up , though only just in time , and they have hurried along to set themselves at the head of the movement . It must be hard ...
... effect to balance a phrase or give emotion to a paragraph . And now G. B. Shaw and H. G. Wells have taken him up , though only just in time , and they have hurried along to set themselves at the head of the movement . It must be hard ...
Page 159
... effects of mental suffering . I have looked into my own heart . I have never found that suffer- ing improves the character . Its influence to refine and ennoble is a myth . The first effect of suffering is to make people nar- row . They ...
... effects of mental suffering . I have looked into my own heart . I have never found that suffer- ing improves the character . Its influence to refine and ennoble is a myth . The first effect of suffering is to make people nar- row . They ...
Page 271
... effect the catastrophe had on those who were saved . I wanted to know whether the fearful danger and the miraculous escape had had a spiritual or a moral effect on them , whether it changed their lives afterwards , whether their faith ...
... effect the catastrophe had on those who were saved . I wanted to know whether the fearful danger and the miraculous escape had had a spiritual or a moral effect on them , whether it changed their lives afterwards , whether their faith ...
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