The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 162William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1947 |
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Page 311
... mean what they say . This can be seen when we come to the words describing moral qualities : devoir - mollesse ; pureté ― vice ; honnête - facile . They are in no sense idle antitheses put in to give the passage pattern and balance ...
... mean what they say . This can be seen when we come to the words describing moral qualities : devoir - mollesse ; pureté ― vice ; honnête - facile . They are in no sense idle antitheses put in to give the passage pattern and balance ...
Page 313
... means as disinterested as it seems at first . It is rather a sign of mollesse , and devoir itself is little more than a fear of violent feeling qui ôte le calme . It is apparent , for example , that when the Countess , realising that ...
... means as disinterested as it seems at first . It is rather a sign of mollesse , and devoir itself is little more than a fear of violent feeling qui ôte le calme . It is apparent , for example , that when the Countess , realising that ...
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... means of expression , had been with him from early child- hood , as they had been with Wordsworth . They can only be explained , I think , to the extent that they can be traced to the childhood sense of identity with the unknown : As ...
... means of expression , had been with him from early child- hood , as they had been with Wordsworth . They can only be explained , I think , to the extent that they can be traced to the childhood sense of identity with the unknown : As ...
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Against Basic English By Rose Macaulay 21 | 263 |
Koestler Arthur By Raymond Mortimer 213 | 275 |
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