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Page 67
... sense of humour . A sense of humour leads you to take pleasure in the discrepancies of human nature ; it leads you to mistrust great professions and look for the unworthy motive that they conceal ; the dis- parity between appearance and ...
... sense of humour . A sense of humour leads you to take pleasure in the discrepancies of human nature ; it leads you to mistrust great professions and look for the unworthy motive that they conceal ; the dis- parity between appearance and ...
Page 210
... sense of reality . It is this , however , that has given the French an acute sense of discom- fort . The sermons that Henry James preached to the English on form in the novel aroused their inter- est , but have little affected their ...
... sense of reality . It is this , however , that has given the French an acute sense of discom- fort . The sermons that Henry James preached to the English on form in the novel aroused their inter- est , but have little affected their ...
Page 270
... sense of a present God who supports and comforts us . The mystics have narrated their experience so often , and in terms so similar , that I do not see how one can deny its reality . Indeed , I have myself had on one occasion an ...
... sense of a present God who supports and comforts us . The mystics have narrated their experience so often , and in terms so similar , that I do not see how one can deny its reality . Indeed , I have myself had on one occasion an ...
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