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Page 45
... turn up our noses because it smells of blood and sweat . We cannot , however will- ingly we would , escape the influence of this workaday prose . But the journalism of a period has very much the same style ; it might all have been ...
... turn up our noses because it smells of blood and sweat . We cannot , however will- ingly we would , escape the influence of this workaday prose . But the journalism of a period has very much the same style ; it might all have been ...
Page 48
... turn- ing to the right or to the left . Upon these the pattern is imposed . Life itself has forced it on them . There is no reason why such a pattern should not be as complete as that which anyone has tried self - consciously to make ...
... turn- ing to the right or to the left . Upon these the pattern is imposed . Life itself has forced it on them . There is no reason why such a pattern should not be as complete as that which anyone has tried self - consciously to make ...
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... turn in order to assuage his wounded feelings . His interest is in his reaction to the work he is considering , not in the reaction it has to him . There can seldom have been a greater need than now of a critic of authority , for the ...
... turn in order to assuage his wounded feelings . His interest is in his reaction to the work he is considering , not in the reaction it has to him . There can seldom have been a greater need than now of a critic of authority , for the ...
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