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... give us knowledge and much more than upon philo- sophy to give us wisdom . It is by no means entirely for the reasons offered by Matthew Arnold nor quite in the way he would have expected that we have ' turned more and more to poetry to ...
... give us knowledge and much more than upon philo- sophy to give us wisdom . It is by no means entirely for the reasons offered by Matthew Arnold nor quite in the way he would have expected that we have ' turned more and more to poetry to ...
Page 78
... gives back the bewilderment of its observers . At times strange and hostile and alien , at times kindly and pleasing ... give each other we make memorials , and from such contrasts and contradictions as these we build 1 King Lear , 1. 1 ...
... gives back the bewilderment of its observers . At times strange and hostile and alien , at times kindly and pleasing ... give each other we make memorials , and from such contrasts and contradictions as these we build 1 King Lear , 1. 1 ...
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... give him in all truth a philosophy of life : not a theory merely , but a theory which would give him order and confidence ? The answer is that it did not . It proved a dismal failure . He tried to find , he tells us , the ground of ...
... give him in all truth a philosophy of life : not a theory merely , but a theory which would give him order and confidence ? The answer is that it did not . It proved a dismal failure . He tried to find , he tells us , the ground of ...
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PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS By Sir H I Bell | 15 |
ALESSANDRO MANZONI Italian Lecture By A P dEntrèves | 23 |
MORAL PRINCIPLES AND INDUCTIVE POLICIES Philosophical | 51 |
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