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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... notion that on the wholel the cobbler does best to stick to his last . Because I had heard that Dryden had learnt to write English from his study of Tillotson , I read certain passages of this author and I came across a piece that gave ...
... notion that on the wholel the cobbler does best to stick to his last . Because I had heard that Dryden had learnt to write English from his study of Tillotson , I read certain passages of this author and I came across a piece that gave ...
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... notion that it can be occasioned by other causes than the religious . The saints themselves have been willing to admit that the artists may have it , and love , as we know , can produce a state so like it that the mystics have found ...
... notion that it can be occasioned by other causes than the religious . The saints themselves have been willing to admit that the artists may have it , and love , as we know , can produce a state so like it that the mystics have found ...
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... notion to be enter- tained in connection with common mortals . They are too insignificant to deserve eternal punishment or to merit eternal bliss . So philosophers have been found to suggest that such as have the possibility of ...
... notion to be enter- tained in connection with common mortals . They are too insignificant to deserve eternal punishment or to merit eternal bliss . So philosophers have been found to suggest that such as have the possibility of ...
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