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Page 168
... character he intended , with his sensuality and mysticism , his ineffectualness , his sentimentality , his muddle ... characters , some of whom appear but on a single page , who are drawn , often in three or four lines , with a ...
... character he intended , with his sensuality and mysticism , his ineffectualness , his sentimentality , his muddle ... characters , some of whom appear but on a single page , who are drawn , often in three or four lines , with a ...
Page 246
... character is in- troduced or when interest has already been excited in him . In any case I do not believe that the ... character he is inventing . They shirk the difficulty . Some writers seem unconscious of the importance of physical ...
... character is in- troduced or when interest has already been excited in him . In any case I do not believe that the ... character he is inventing . They shirk the difficulty . Some writers seem unconscious of the importance of physical ...
Page 362
... character , and so our soul , would have been other than they are . For whether the soul is a conglomeration of qualities , affec- tions , idiosyncrasies , I know not what , or a simple spiritual substance , character is its sensible ...
... character , and so our soul , would have been other than they are . For whether the soul is a conglomeration of qualities , affec- tions , idiosyncrasies , I know not what , or a simple spiritual substance , character is its sensible ...
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