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... whole value of the sentence is changed . There is something singularly exhilarating and piquant about a language which can imply a whole unexpressed sentence in the word yáp . It is the very language of the intellectual fencing school ...
... whole value of the sentence is changed . There is something singularly exhilarating and piquant about a language which can imply a whole unexpressed sentence in the word yáp . It is the very language of the intellectual fencing school ...
Page 79
... whole human race , and this gives to his presentation a gravity and weight of utterance which you will not find in the earlier writer , whose story is all in the past , and has no implications for the present . I put it to you ( if I ...
... whole human race , and this gives to his presentation a gravity and weight of utterance which you will not find in the earlier writer , whose story is all in the past , and has no implications for the present . I put it to you ( if I ...
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... whole conception of love in England , at least from the days of chivalry onwards , is some- thing so entirely different from that of classical Greece and Rome that a comparison is none too easy . We are in a world where the whole ...
... whole conception of love in England , at least from the days of chivalry onwards , is some- thing so entirely different from that of classical Greece and Rome that a comparison is none too easy . We are in a world where the whole ...
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