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... but complete precision is not within our grasp . For consider what is involved . To construct a precise universal man involves knowing man's nature completely . If we miss anything , some element in the whole will be thought vaguely ...
... but complete precision is not within our grasp . For consider what is involved . To construct a precise universal man involves knowing man's nature completely . If we miss anything , some element in the whole will be thought vaguely ...
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Hence such universals have a high value even if they fall away from the ideal of complete precision . Universals of things can never attain the ideal of the con- structed universal . What of other universals ?
Hence such universals have a high value even if they fall away from the ideal of complete precision . Universals of things can never attain the ideal of the con- structed universal . What of other universals ?
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Real exclamations include ( 1 ) the words recognized as inter- jections , as alas , ( 2 ) fragmentary expressions that are not complete sentences , ... and ( 3 ) complete statements that contain an exclamatory word , as : What a piece ...
Real exclamations include ( 1 ) the words recognized as inter- jections , as alas , ( 2 ) fragmentary expressions that are not complete sentences , ... and ( 3 ) complete statements that contain an exclamatory word , as : What a piece ...
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Contents
CORRESPONDING FELLOWS 1945 | 4 |
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS By Sir John Clapham | 12 |
THE POETRY OF THOMAS GRAY Warton Lecture on English Poetry | 43 |
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