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Page 74
... exciting . At last the dressmakers filter through the fire- proof door and resume their seats , the representatives of rival firms at a haughty distance from one another , and the stage manager puts his head round the curtain . " All ...
... exciting . At last the dressmakers filter through the fire- proof door and resume their seats , the representatives of rival firms at a haughty distance from one another , and the stage manager puts his head round the curtain . " All ...
Page 167
... exciting speaker . I was too young and too ignorant to understand much of what he said , but I got a very clear impression of Schopenhauer's odd and original personality and a confused feeling of the dramatic value and the romantic ...
... exciting speaker . I was too young and too ignorant to understand much of what he said , but I got a very clear impression of Schopenhauer's odd and original personality and a confused feeling of the dramatic value and the romantic ...
Page 172
... exciting enough to make it worth his while to risk a tumble . I was much disconcerted by the claim that I found here and there advanced that philosophy was the prov- ince of the higher mathematicians ; and though it seemed hard to me to ...
... exciting enough to make it worth his while to risk a tumble . I was much disconcerted by the claim that I found here and there advanced that philosophy was the prov- ince of the higher mathematicians ; and though it seemed hard to me to ...
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