The Spirit of the Age: Or Contemporary PortraitsOxford University Press, 1954 - 302 стор. |
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... kind of legal pertinacity , or rather by a rigid and constant habit of attending to the exact import of every word and clause in a sentence . Mr. Tooke had the mind of a lawyer ; but it was applied to a vast variety of topics and ...
... kind of legal pertinacity , or rather by a rigid and constant habit of attending to the exact import of every word and clause in a sentence . Mr. Tooke had the mind of a lawyer ; but it was applied to a vast variety of topics and ...
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... kind of veil over its natural features ; and custom puts on the mask of ignorance . But this veil , this . mask the author of The Diversions of Purley threw aside , and penetrated to the naked truth of things by the literal , matter ...
... kind of veil over its natural features ; and custom puts on the mask of ignorance . But this veil , this . mask the author of The Diversions of Purley threw aside , and penetrated to the naked truth of things by the literal , matter ...
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... kind of fourth estate in the politics of the country . He is not only unquestionably the most powerful political writer of the present day , but one of the best writers in the language . He speaks and thinks plain , broad , downright ...
... kind of fourth estate in the politics of the country . He is not only unquestionably the most powerful political writer of the present day , but one of the best writers in the language . He speaks and thinks plain , broad , downright ...
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