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Page 90
... experience without which I could not write , but I have gone into it also because I wanted experience for its own sake . It did not seem to me enough only to be a writer . The pat- tern I had designed for myself insisted that I should ...
... experience without which I could not write , but I have gone into it also because I wanted experience for its own sake . It did not seem to me enough only to be a writer . The pat- tern I had designed for myself insisted that I should ...
Page 165
... experience of life to write of contemporary manners ; history provided him with a story and characters and the romantic fervour of his young blood gave him the dash that was needed for this sort of composition . I know now that this was ...
... experience of life to write of contemporary manners ; history provided him with a story and characters and the romantic fervour of his young blood gave him the dash that was needed for this sort of composition . I know now that this was ...
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... experience like that muscular sense that the physiol- ogists not so long ago discovered , which they have absorbed from the notions current in the society in which they live and which has been faintly modified by their own experience ...
... experience like that muscular sense that the physiol- ogists not so long ago discovered , which they have absorbed from the notions current in the society in which they live and which has been faintly modified by their own experience ...
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