The Province of ProseWilliam R. Keast, Robert E. Streeter Harper, 1956 - 801 Seiten |
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... figure of speech ; this is a fact . " But Darwin was using language in quite another manner . He took pains to say that the struggle for existence is not a fact but only a figure of speech . He stops dead in his tracks , when first ...
... figure of speech ; this is a fact . " But Darwin was using language in quite another manner . He took pains to say that the struggle for existence is not a fact but only a figure of speech . He stops dead in his tracks , when first ...
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... figures . It may be an effect of the incorrigible frivolity inherent in human nature , but most of us will agree that a map is more fascinating to look at than a figure in a treatise on conic sections — at any rate for the simple minds ...
... figures . It may be an effect of the incorrigible frivolity inherent in human nature , but most of us will agree that a map is more fascinating to look at than a figure in a treatise on conic sections — at any rate for the simple minds ...
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... figure is surrounded and perhaps in- vaded by light . It has been taken over from the nimbus of pagan sculp- ture , and we have already seen how it also traveled east to settle on the head of Buddha . The figure of Jesus himself could ...
... figure is surrounded and perhaps in- vaded by light . It has been taken over from the nimbus of pagan sculp- ture , and we have already seen how it also traveled east to settle on the head of Buddha . The figure of Jesus himself could ...
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PART ONE The Writers Problems | 1 |
From The English NoteBooks | 14 |
Three Contemporary Travelers Describe the Western River | 20 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Adams Alistair Cooke American artist boat Braddock cabin called century character civilization Colbatch College Communist cowboy culture described developed DISCUSSION AND WRITING E. B. WHITE E. M. Forster effect English essay example experience expression eyes fact feel Fletcher Pratt Fort Duquesne French give Henry Henry Adams hero Hopalong Cassidy horse human hundred ideas Indians interest kind Kisei knew language learned less live look Mark Twain meaning ment mind modern moral nature never observation paragraph Pargellis party perhaps person phrase Podunk political premises problem reader reason Reprinted seemed sense sentence Shooting an Elephant social society statement steamboat style thing Thoreau thought tion TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION truth turn UNDERSTANDING THE TEXT Walden Walden Pond Western Whig whole words young