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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 overgrowth ...
... 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 overgrowth ...
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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 : we ask , in fact , to have some universal commonplace given back to us in a new form . After all , a reader is very like an explorer : he cannot stay in the Pacific Islands or the North - West passage which he has been so ...
... universal : we ask , in fact , to have some universal commonplace given back to us in a new form . After all , a reader is very like an explorer : he cannot stay in the Pacific Islands or the North - West passage which he has been so ...
Contents
ANNUAL REPORT FOR 191819 | 19 |
RALEIGH LECTURE ON HISTORY 1920 THE BRITISH SOLDIER | 29 |
ANNUAL REPORT FOR 191920 | 31 |
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