The Summing Up, Part 354, Volume 1The reminiscences of the author's lifetime; insight on life and art; education, discipline and training of a writer. |
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... knowledge of Elizabethan literature , his inordinate admiration for Esther Waters made me doubtful of his discernment in the productions of our own day : no one could attach so great a value to that work who had an intimate knowledge of ...
... knowledge of Elizabethan literature , his inordinate admiration for Esther Waters made me doubtful of his discernment in the productions of our own day : no one could attach so great a value to that work who had an intimate knowledge of ...
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... knowledge of science and scientific method . Till then I had been concerned only with art and litera- ture . It was a very limited knowledge , for the demands of the curriculum at that time were small , but at all events it showed me ...
... knowledge of science and scientific method . Till then I had been concerned only with art and litera- ture . It was a very limited knowledge , for the demands of the curriculum at that time were small , but at all events it showed me ...
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... knowledge . The stockbroker has his knowledge too and so has the artizan . It is a silly prejudice of the intellectual that his is the only one that counts . The True , the Good and the Beautiful are not the perquisites of those who ...
... knowledge . The stockbroker has his knowledge too and so has the artizan . It is a silly prejudice of the intellectual that his is the only one that counts . The True , the Good and the Beautiful are not the perquisites of those who ...
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