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... gift of speech , for it must be next door to impossible to rise to power in a demo- cratic community unless you can catch the ears of the public ; and the gift of speech , as we know , is not often accompanied by the power of thought ...
... gift of speech , for it must be next door to impossible to rise to power in a demo- cratic community unless you can catch the ears of the public ; and the gift of speech , as we know , is not often accompanied by the power of thought ...
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... gifts . For example , I do not think that Cervantes had an exceptional gift for writing ; few people would deny him genius . Nor would it be easy in English litera- ture to find a poet with a happier gift than Herrick and yet no one ...
... gifts . For example , I do not think that Cervantes had an exceptional gift for writing ; few people would deny him genius . Nor would it be easy in English litera- ture to find a poet with a happier gift than Herrick and yet no one ...
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... gift prevents him from knowing them as they really are . It is as though he wanted urgently to see a certain thing and by the act of looking at it drew before it a veil that obscured it . The writer stands outside the very action he is ...
... gift prevents him from knowing them as they really are . It is as though he wanted urgently to see a certain thing and by the act of looking at it drew before it a veil that obscured it . The writer stands outside the very action he is ...
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