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... doubt- fully upon scanty and hazardous foundations - the records of later chroniclers and the deductions and researches of modern scholarship . But Signor Ferrero is nothing if not courageous ; he erects his edifice with the sure hands ...
... doubt- fully upon scanty and hazardous foundations - the records of later chroniclers and the deductions and researches of modern scholarship . But Signor Ferrero is nothing if not courageous ; he erects his edifice with the sure hands ...
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... doubt the most obviously disconcerting of Dostoiev- sky's characteristics is his form . Most of his works are not only exceedingly long , but - at any rate on a first in- spection - extremely disordered . Even in The Brothers Karamazov ...
... doubt the most obviously disconcerting of Dostoiev- sky's characteristics is his form . Most of his works are not only exceedingly long , but - at any rate on a first in- spection - extremely disordered . Even in The Brothers Karamazov ...
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... doubt , lies the central essence of his genius , the motive force which controls and animates the whole of his work . It is his revelations of the workings of the human mind that give him his place among the great creative artists of ...
... doubt , lies the central essence of his genius , the motive force which controls and animates the whole of his work . It is his revelations of the workings of the human mind that give him his place among the great creative artists of ...
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A New History of Rome Jan 2 1909 page | 13 |
Sir Henry Wotton Nov 23 1907 | 23 |
The Swan of Lichfield Dec 7 1907 | 33 |
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