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Page xiii
... habits of mind from which my attitude results are often remote , complicated and by no means always orthodox . Moreover , there is at the bottom of it a large share of what is merely negative , a minus in my case of influences , dogmas ...
... habits of mind from which my attitude results are often remote , complicated and by no means always orthodox . Moreover , there is at the bottom of it a large share of what is merely negative , a minus in my case of influences , dogmas ...
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... habit they may have had of thinking in terms other than those of human volition . With an armed adversary advancing to destroy them , they cannot possibly believe or even suspect that both parties to this frightful and unthought - of ...
... habit they may have had of thinking in terms other than those of human volition . With an armed adversary advancing to destroy them , they cannot possibly believe or even suspect that both parties to this frightful and unthought - of ...
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... it , that the sword drawn against the enemy was a sword drawn in defence of peace . In this manner do some of our most creditable feelings and habits come between disinterested curiosity about the war's moral status xxvi SATAN THE WASTER.
... it , that the sword drawn against the enemy was a sword drawn in defence of peace . In this manner do some of our most creditable feelings and habits come between disinterested curiosity about the war's moral status xxvi SATAN THE WASTER.
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A Philosophic War Trilogy with Notes & Introduction Vernon Lee. habits come between disinterested curiosity about the war's moral status and the people engaged in that war . These honourable motives have , however , been eked out ...
A Philosophic War Trilogy with Notes & Introduction Vernon Lee. habits come between disinterested curiosity about the war's moral status and the people engaged in that war . These honourable motives have , however , been eked out ...
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... habits and preferences , delusions which , inasmuch as born of our needs , have something so much more natural and cogent about them , are notwith- standing , in the long run , so much less important than realities , indeed take half of ...
... habits and preferences , delusions which , inasmuch as born of our needs , have something so much more natural and cogent about them , are notwith- standing , in the long run , so much less important than realities , indeed take half of ...
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