Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists ...G. P. Putnam's sons, 1883 |
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... questions wanting this solemn covenant . Something less than truth satisfies . It is common to hear a person say , " You ... question by honest means , might be illustrated , and the practice justified , by a more sacred example than is ...
... questions wanting this solemn covenant . Something less than truth satisfies . It is common to hear a person say , " You ... question by honest means , might be illustrated , and the practice justified , by a more sacred example than is ...
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... questions , from proposing doubts , from asking for explanations , reacting by no mode of mental activity , and ... question and answer , of objection and demur . Not otherwise was it possible that even the at- tention could be kept ...
... questions , from proposing doubts , from asking for explanations , reacting by no mode of mental activity , and ... question and answer , of objection and demur . Not otherwise was it possible that even the at- tention could be kept ...
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... question whether , without exception , their lordships were all of them able so much as to read . But even supposing them all in the fullest posses- sion of that useful art , political science being the science in question , what ...
... question whether , without exception , their lordships were all of them able so much as to read . But even supposing them all in the fullest posses- sion of that useful art , political science being the science in question , what ...
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THE MUTABILITY OF LITERATURE By W Irving | 3 |
THE WORLD OF BOOKS | 25 |
IMPERFECT SYMPATHIES | 43 |
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