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Page 8
... offer new evidence . And since I have put the whole of my life my books much of what I have to say will naturally have found a place in them . There are few subjects within the compass of my interests that I have not lightly or ...
... offer new evidence . And since I have put the whole of my life my books much of what I have to say will naturally have found a place in them . There are few subjects within the compass of my interests that I have not lightly or ...
Page 153
... offered a better subject of discourse than the novel of charater or adventure . The intelligent critics , the more serious novel readers , have since then given most . of their attention to the writers who seemed to offer something new ...
... offered a better subject of discourse than the novel of charater or adventure . The intelligent critics , the more serious novel readers , have since then given most . of their attention to the writers who seemed to offer something new ...
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... offer me the final and absolute freedom . Notwith- standing , I am willing enough to go on living so long as the doctors can keep me in tolerable health ; I enjoy the spectacle of the world and it interests me to see what is going to ...
... offer me the final and absolute freedom . Notwith- standing , I am willing enough to go on living so long as the doctors can keep me in tolerable health ; I enjoy the spectacle of the world and it interests me to see what is going to ...
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