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Page 38
... human responsi- bility . The answer is that the notion of human responsibility is precisely what gives history a meaning in Manzoni's eyes . The spectacle of human errors and follies seems to provide him with an inexhaustible storehouse ...
... human responsi- bility . The answer is that the notion of human responsibility is precisely what gives history a meaning in Manzoni's eyes . The spectacle of human errors and follies seems to provide him with an inexhaustible storehouse ...
Page 74
... human capacity and the utter futility of human action are registered where every day we turn the leaf to read them . But so we learn to read at all ; in a cruel school , from a bloody hornbook . Whether all disastrous situations in ...
... human capacity and the utter futility of human action are registered where every day we turn the leaf to read them . But so we learn to read at all ; in a cruel school , from a bloody hornbook . Whether all disastrous situations in ...
Page 119
... human terms : the old soldier in Book IV of The Prelude , the beggar in the streets of London , Michael , the leech - gatherer ; and there are many other figures like them in Wordsworth's poems . These land- scapes and these figures are ...
... human terms : the old soldier in Book IV of The Prelude , the beggar in the streets of London , Michael , the leech - gatherer ; and there are many other figures like them in Wordsworth's poems . These land- scapes and these figures are ...
Contents
LIST OF FELLOWS | 7 |
OFFICERS AND COUNCIL July | 11 |
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS By Sir H I Bell | 15 |
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