The Summing UpAutobiographical and confessional, and yet not, this is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo - both a classic avowal of an author's ideas and his craft. |
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... attention to these , you cannot pay attention at all . Your mind wanders . This kind of writing demands a subject that will suit it . It is surely out of place to write in the grand style of inconsiderable things . No one wrote in this ...
... attention to these , you cannot pay attention at all . Your mind wanders . This kind of writing demands a subject that will suit it . It is surely out of place to write in the grand style of inconsiderable things . No one wrote in this ...
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... offences of others . I suppose the reason is that we know all the circumstances that have occasioned them and so manage to excuse in ourselves what we cannot excuse in others . We turn our attention away [ 52 ] THE SUMMING UP 1.
... offences of others . I suppose the reason is that we know all the circumstances that have occasioned them and so manage to excuse in ourselves what we cannot excuse in others . We turn our attention away [ 52 ] THE SUMMING UP 1.
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... attention of the audi- ence on them so that the delay in their appearance increases the expectation . No one followed this prac- tice more scrupulously than that very competent dramatist William Shakespeare .. It is the difficulty of ...
... attention of the audi- ence on them so that the delay in their appearance increases the expectation . No one followed this prac- tice more scrupulously than that very competent dramatist William Shakespeare .. It is the difficulty of ...
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