College Readings in English ProseFrank William Scott, Jacob Zeitlin |
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... sense , thinking . More of our waking life than we should care to admit , even to ourselves , is likely to be whiled away in this inconsequential trifling with idle fancy and un- substantial hope . In this sense , silly folk and ...
... sense , thinking . More of our waking life than we should care to admit , even to ourselves , is likely to be whiled away in this inconsequential trifling with idle fancy and un- substantial hope . In this sense , silly folk and ...
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... sense in which they are truly equal . And yet in the name of that sense of equality which he attains by denying that the worth of a soul can be measured , the worldly democrats have made the mere counting of souls the final arbiter of ...
... sense in which they are truly equal . And yet in the name of that sense of equality which he attains by denying that the worth of a soul can be measured , the worldly democrats have made the mere counting of souls the final arbiter of ...
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... sense that human beings are the sport of forces outside themselves , to make use of an extreme and even melodramatic ... sense of Nature as a force ; he feels in it a spirit that can sympathize or mock or re- main the indifferent ...
... sense that human beings are the sport of forces outside themselves , to make use of an extreme and even melodramatic ... sense of Nature as a force ; he feels in it a spirit that can sympathize or mock or re- main the indifferent ...
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