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Page 220
... probably be the strangeness and novelty of his genius to which many people are blind , his strong grasp of certain great and original ideas , and his poetic expression of them , which is often , though by no means always , supreme ...
... probably be the strangeness and novelty of his genius to which many people are blind , his strong grasp of certain great and original ideas , and his poetic expression of them , which is often , though by no means always , supreme ...
Page 224
... probably say that they were this poet and not that . And how their greatness is measured , as I said , by their very commonplaceness ! It is because they are so commonplace that they are as real to us as they were to the original Jews ...
... probably say that they were this poet and not that . And how their greatness is measured , as I said , by their very commonplaceness ! It is because they are so commonplace that they are as real to us as they were to the original Jews ...
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... probably took place through some intermediary . The point would make an interesting topic for a separate research . The medicine of the Dark Age derived from these works forms a fairly definite system and is easily traced . Its ...
... probably took place through some intermediary . The point would make an interesting topic for a separate research . The medicine of the Dark Age derived from these works forms a fairly definite system and is easily traced . Its ...
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ANNUAL REPORT FOR 191819 | 19 |
RALEIGH LECTURE ON HISTORY 1920 THE BRITISH SOLDIER | 29 |
ANNUAL REPORT FOR 191920 | 31 |
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