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Page 41
... better . I cannot say of myself what John- son said of Pope : ' He never passed a fault unamended by indif- ference , nor quitted it by despair . ' I do not write as I want to ; I write as I can . But Fowler had no ear . He did not see ...
... better . I cannot say of myself what John- son said of Pope : ' He never passed a fault unamended by indif- ference , nor quitted it by despair . ' I do not write as I want to ; I write as I can . But Fowler had no ear . He did not see ...
Page 42
... better balance . But , I hasten to add , though I think you may without misgiving make this concession to pleasant sound , I think you should make none to what may obscure your meaning . Anything is better than not to write clearly ...
... better balance . But , I hasten to add , though I think you may without misgiving make this concession to pleasant sound , I think you should make none to what may obscure your meaning . Anything is better than not to write clearly ...
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... better than they were , but for all that it does not seem fatuous to think that the world is on the whole a better place to live in than it was in the past that history sets before us , and that the lot of the great majority , bad as it ...
... better than they were , but for all that it does not seem fatuous to think that the world is on the whole a better place to live in than it was in the past that history sets before us , and that the lot of the great majority , bad as it ...
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