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... true that he is not read as he once was . But who is in this age ? -an age of " snippets and clippets , " of cheap magazine and illustrated interview ? Who faces up to octavo volumes of laboured wisdom ? Yet the octavo volumes remain ...
... true that he is not read as he once was . But who is in this age ? -an age of " snippets and clippets , " of cheap magazine and illustrated interview ? Who faces up to octavo volumes of laboured wisdom ? Yet the octavo volumes remain ...
Page 48
... true . He hated all that was superficial , hypocritical , unreal or mean . Cant fled from his presence torn and shattered , shorn of its borrowed plumes , vilified , un- masked . His attitude was typical of that high - standard of truth ...
... true . He hated all that was superficial , hypocritical , unreal or mean . Cant fled from his presence torn and shattered , shorn of its borrowed plumes , vilified , un- masked . His attitude was typical of that high - standard of truth ...
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... true that classic learning brought out the true beauties of Johnson's scholarship , but he hoped that their Society would always em- phasise the fact that the deep , yet simple , religious devotion , the true sincerity , the virile ...
... true that classic learning brought out the true beauties of Johnson's scholarship , but he hoped that their Society would always em- phasise the fact that the deep , yet simple , religious devotion , the true sincerity , the virile ...
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