The Living Age, Volume 270Living Age Company, 1911 |
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Page 30
... human intellect more important to a nation , occupied in the supreme task of securing to itself its rightful position among the leading countries of the world . And while I am discoursing on the subject of for- eign criticism of Italian ...
... human intellect more important to a nation , occupied in the supreme task of securing to itself its rightful position among the leading countries of the world . And while I am discoursing on the subject of for- eign criticism of Italian ...
Page 37
... human- ized the past . Between an historian and an historiographer there is all the difference in the world , and pedants are not portrayers ; though , on the other hand , the conventional prudery that shrinks from the naked truth may ...
... human- ized the past . Between an historian and an historiographer there is all the difference in the world , and pedants are not portrayers ; though , on the other hand , the conventional prudery that shrinks from the naked truth may ...
Page 42
... human when guffawed over by friendly topers ; indeed , it is the friendship of genius in the Augustan age that . most attracts him . He is good , but no goody - goody , perhaps even over - indulgent to the flow- ing bowl . While the ...
... human when guffawed over by friendly topers ; indeed , it is the friendship of genius in the Augustan age that . most attracts him . He is good , but no goody - goody , perhaps even over - indulgent to the flow- ing bowl . While the ...
Page 48
... human chat- tel , his property , stamped with his die , to be used for any purpose he wished . And instead of being honored that he had chosen workmanship of mine to minister to his own greatness - as if a Cecil looked at me in ...
... human chat- tel , his property , stamped with his die , to be used for any purpose he wished . And instead of being honored that he had chosen workmanship of mine to minister to his own greatness - as if a Cecil looked at me in ...
Page 49
... human nature at the sight of two copies of what are in effect the same verses ; but when I cross - examined him about the matter he declined to answer my questions on the ground that in extri- cating himself from a charge of dishon ...
... human nature at the sight of two copies of what are in effect the same verses ; but when I cross - examined him about the matter he declined to answer my questions on the ground that in extri- cating himself from a charge of dishon ...
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