A Modern Virgilian: A Memorial Lecture to Monsignor Ronald Knox Delivered to the Virgil SocietyVirgil Society, 1959 - 16 pages |
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... knew ; I catch the echoes and the overtones of a mind that had long been made up on all essential matters . I can tell exactly how they would have ' got across ' to the same kind of audience that followed his Conferences at the Oxford ...
... knew ; I catch the echoes and the overtones of a mind that had long been made up on all essential matters . I can tell exactly how they would have ' got across ' to the same kind of audience that followed his Conferences at the Oxford ...
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... knew from the start that the right side was going to come out top in the end . You may object that that was begging the question . But for a Roman of the Augustan age , as for an Englishman of the Victorian age , or for a Frenchman of ...
... knew from the start that the right side was going to come out top in the end . You may object that that was begging the question . But for a Roman of the Augustan age , as for an Englishman of the Victorian age , or for a Frenchman of ...
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... knew him as a friend -without also reminding ourselves of the brevity of human life . He lived , it is true , to a ripe maturity , if not to a ripe old age . But his mental powers were still intact and vigorous , and he had plenty more ...
... knew him as a friend -without also reminding ourselves of the brevity of human life . He lived , it is true , to a ripe maturity , if not to a ripe old age . But his mental powers were still intact and vigorous , and he had plenty more ...
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