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Page 72
... speak it well enough to be able to treat of any subject of discourse that may arise . It has a great literature ; other countries , with the exception of England , have great writers , rather than a great literature ; and its influence ...
... speak it well enough to be able to treat of any subject of discourse that may arise . It has a great literature ; other countries , with the exception of England , have great writers , rather than a great literature ; and its influence ...
Page 111
... speak ungrammatically and in short or unfinished sentences , and a vocabulary has been em- ployed in which only the simplest and most ordinary words are allowed . This dialogue is eked out with shrugs , waves of the hand and grimaces ...
... speak ungrammatically and in short or unfinished sentences , and a vocabulary has been em- ployed in which only the simplest and most ordinary words are allowed . This dialogue is eked out with shrugs , waves of the hand and grimaces ...
Page 125
... speak ing writer has the potentiality of such an enormous pub- lic that writing can very reasonably be adopted as a pro fession . It would be more overcrowded than it is if in English - speaking countries the cultivation of the arts ...
... speak ing writer has the potentiality of such an enormous pub- lic that writing can very reasonably be adopted as a pro fession . It would be more overcrowded than it is if in English - speaking countries the cultivation of the arts ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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