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... universal truth , and as great as universal ; only that its universality and universal acceptance have now blinded us to its greatness . Often enough the obviousness which we see is an accident , an excrescence , an obscuring ...
... universal truth , and as great as universal ; only that its universality and universal acceptance have now blinded us to its greatness . Often enough the obviousness which we see is an accident , an excrescence , an obscuring ...
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... universal human life , above all of peasant life , and totally avoided and indeed scorned the genteel and the polite . It is not only that he could not have written The Rape of the Lock to save his life : it is also true that he would ...
... universal human life , above all of peasant life , and totally avoided and indeed scorned the genteel and the polite . It is not only that he could not have written The Rape of the Lock to save his life : it is also true that he would ...
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... universal feelings of simple faith in God what every one in every nation and creed has felt who has any religion at all ? And yet here they are , those old universal common- places of weakness in the presence of Power , of man looking ...
... universal feelings of simple faith in God what every one in every nation and creed has felt who has any religion at all ? And yet here they are , those old universal common- places of weakness in the presence of Power , of man looking ...
Contents
OFFICERS AND COUNCIL 192021 | 21 |
RALEIGH LECTURE ON HISTORY 1920 THE BRITISH SOLDIER | 29 |
SOME | 30 |
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