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My knowledge of English must have been slight. I have been told that on one occasion, seeing a horse out of the window of a railway carriage, I cried: "Regardez, Maman, voila tin 'orse." 1 think my father had a romantic mind.
My knowledge of English must have been slight. I have been told that on one occasion, seeing a horse out of the window of a railway carriage, I cried: "Regardez, Maman, voila tin 'orse." 1 think my father had a romantic mind.
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Bible has been a very harmful influence on English prose. I am not so stupid as to deny its great beauty. It is ma- jestical. But the Bible is an oriental book. Its alien imagery has nothing to do with us.
Bible has been a very harmful influence on English prose. I am not so stupid as to deny its great beauty. It is ma- jestical. But the Bible is an oriental book. Its alien imagery has nothing to do with us.
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And when I came to the English philosophers, with perhaps a slight prejudice, for it had been impressed upon me in Germany that, with the possible exception of Hume, they were quite negligible and Hume's only importance was that Kant ...
And when I came to the English philosophers, with perhaps a slight prejudice, for it had been impressed upon me in Germany that, with the possible exception of Hume, they were quite negligible and Hume's only importance was that Kant ...
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| Title | the summing up |
| Author | w. somerest maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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