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... sort of order I should see for myself more distinctly what they really were and so might get some kind of coherence into them . I have long thought I should like to make such an attempt and more than once , when starting on a journey ...
... sort of order I should see for myself more distinctly what they really were and so might get some kind of coherence into them . I have long thought I should like to make such an attempt and more than once , when starting on a journey ...
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... sort of magic in the written word . The idea acquires substance by taking on a visible nature , and then stands in the way of its own clarification . But this sort of obscurity merges very easily into the wilful . Some writers who do ...
... sort of magic in the written word . The idea acquires substance by taking on a visible nature , and then stands in the way of its own clarification . But this sort of obscurity merges very easily into the wilful . Some writers who do ...
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... sort . Fisher Unwin must have been dismayed when he received it . It was a novel set in Italy during the Renaissance and it was founded on a story I had read in Machiavelli's History of Florence . I wrote it because of some articles by ...
... sort . Fisher Unwin must have been dismayed when he received it . It was a novel set in Italy during the Renaissance and it was founded on a story I had read in Machiavelli's History of Florence . I wrote it because of some articles by ...
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