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... Reason as the disposer of things , he would give any other account of their being , except that this was best .... These hopes I would not have sold for a large sum of money , and I seized the books and read them as fast as I could , in ...
... Reason as the disposer of things , he would give any other account of their being , except that this was best .... These hopes I would not have sold for a large sum of money , and I seized the books and read them as fast as I could , in ...
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... reason to lap up . Assumption has become habit , and has been so nourished that few readers note anything equivocal to trouble them in that last sentence : the concrete force of “ creams off , ” “ dregs ” and “ lap up ” seems ...
... reason to lap up . Assumption has become habit , and has been so nourished that few readers note anything equivocal to trouble them in that last sentence : the concrete force of “ creams off , ” “ dregs ” and “ lap up ” seems ...
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... reason . Rejecting the remedy , Stendhal is surely not one of us . But pursuing his own reason he argues that the avoidance of ridicule destroys the " miracle of civilization " by which in well - born souls lust begets love . To miss ...
... reason . Rejecting the remedy , Stendhal is surely not one of us . But pursuing his own reason he argues that the avoidance of ridicule destroys the " miracle of civilization " by which in well - born souls lust begets love . To miss ...
Contents
HOMER The Iliad or The Poem of Force | 3 |
AESCHYLUS Introduction to the Oresteia | 51 |
Sophocles | 78 |
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