Literature and Life, 4. raamatScott, Foresman and Company, 1924 |
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... person so far as winning worldly success is concerned . The place of literature is that of an interpreter . It is right that you should give attention to the everyday business of making a living . It is also right that you add to your ...
... person so far as winning worldly success is concerned . The place of literature is that of an interpreter . It is right that you should give attention to the everyday business of making a living . It is also right that you add to your ...
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... person is an animated fact - bag . Another is a sort of human jelly - fish , open to new impressions , new theories , but with no intelligence or power of testing for himself . He is spineless . Neither the animated fact - bag nor the ...
... person is an animated fact - bag . Another is a sort of human jelly - fish , open to new impressions , new theories , but with no intelligence or power of testing for himself . He is spineless . Neither the animated fact - bag nor the ...
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... person to whom you make the report . It is badly done if you merely take fifty words out of a hundred that the author used , or three sentences out of ten . You will need to make an entirely new essay , clothed in your own language . In ...
... person to whom you make the report . It is badly done if you merely take fifty words out of a hundred that the author used , or three sentences out of ten . You will need to make an entirely new essay , clothed in your own language . In ...
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... person- alized . As war was the principal occupation , it is natural that its tools should seem intimate companions . Swords were often given names , as " Durendal , " Roland's sword , and " Excali- bur , " the sword of Arthur ...
... person- alized . As war was the principal occupation , it is natural that its tools should seem intimate companions . Swords were often given names , as " Durendal , " Roland's sword , and " Excali- bur , " the sword of Arthur ...
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... person of silence and dignity , yet on occasion he can sing ; his voice is bold , not weak ; it rings like a great horn . So the debate proceeds , witty , clever in character- ization , and interesting despite its twelve hundred lines ...
... person of silence and dignity , yet on occasion he can sing ; his voice is bold , not weak ; it rings like a great horn . So the debate proceeds , witty , clever in character- ization , and interesting despite its twelve hundred lines ...
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Literature and Life, 4. raamat Edwin Greenlaw,William Harris Elson,Christine M. Keck Snippet view - 1929 |
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