The Summing UpAutobiographical and confessional, and yet not, this is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo - both a classic avowal of an author's ideas and his craft. |
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... mind that led me then to turn my attention to the writers of the Augustan Period . The prose of Swift enchanted me . I made up my mind that this was the perfect way to write and I started to work on him in the same way as I had done ...
... mind that led me then to turn my attention to the writers of the Augustan Period . The prose of Swift enchanted me . I made up my mind that this was the perfect way to write and I started to work on him in the same way as I had done ...
Page 255
... mind was restless . He was like an architect who , when you want a house to live in , having persuaded you to build it of brick , then sets before you good reasons why it should be built of stone ; but when you have agreed to this pro ...
... mind was restless . He was like an architect who , when you want a house to live in , having persuaded you to build it of brick , then sets before you good reasons why it should be built of stone ; but when you have agreed to this pro ...
Page 259
... mind does not exist . There is no possibility and no neces- sity for him to postulate anything outside himself . For ... minds , which they infer , men can be sure of nothing . All the rest of their knowledge is fiction , the ...
... mind does not exist . There is no possibility and no neces- sity for him to postulate anything outside himself . For ... minds , which they infer , men can be sure of nothing . All the rest of their knowledge is fiction , the ...
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