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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... notion was so pre- posterous that I never even dreamt of imparting it to anybody . I had always supposed that I should enter the law , but my three brothers , much older than I , were practising it and there did not seem room for me too ...
... notion was so pre- posterous that I never even dreamt of imparting it to anybody . I had always supposed that I should enter the law , but my three brothers , much older than I , were practising it and there did not seem room for me too ...
Page 131
... notion that when the intelli- gent look for thought in a playhouse , they show less intelligence than one would have expected of them . Thought is a private thing . It is the offspring of reason . It depends on the mental capacity of ...
... notion that when the intelli- gent look for thought in a playhouse , they show less intelligence than one would have expected of them . Thought is a private thing . It is the offspring of reason . It depends on the mental capacity of ...
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... notion that on the whole the cobbler does best to stick to his last . Because I had heard that Dryden had learnt to write English from his study of Tillotson , I read certain passages of this author and I came across a piece that gave ...
... notion that on the whole the cobbler does best to stick to his last . Because I had heard that Dryden had learnt to write English from his study of Tillotson , I read certain passages of this author and I came across a piece that gave ...
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