Interpretations of Literature, Volume 2Dodd, Mead, 1915 Lectures to his students while he "held the chair of English literature in the University of Tokyo from 1896 to 1902"--Confer Introduction. |
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... means that he had embraced a calling which in that time , and for many generations after , was considered ignoble . Yet this man did what no one else in any other country , since the highest period of Greek civilisation , had ever been ...
... means that he had embraced a calling which in that time , and for many generations after , was considered ignoble . Yet this man did what no one else in any other country , since the highest period of Greek civilisation , had ever been ...
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... mean that his language is diffi- cult , or that his thoughts are difficult ; the difficulty lies in the comprehension of the depths of his characters - that is to say , the depth of his knowledge of human nature . The great ...
... mean that his language is diffi- cult , or that his thoughts are difficult ; the difficulty lies in the comprehension of the depths of his characters - that is to say , the depth of his knowledge of human nature . The great ...
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... means ? Why should one of you be able to draw from memory better than any of the rest ? It is because he has superior faculties ; but what are the faculties ? One is memory , ―memory of that special form which we call the representative ...
... means ? Why should one of you be able to draw from memory better than any of the rest ? It is because he has superior faculties ; but what are the faculties ? One is memory , ―memory of that special form which we call the representative ...
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... mean that there is some physiological difference . This physiological difference is like a difference in what is called the " sensitiv- ity " of photographic plates . Some plates , you know , will photograph anything in one - fiftieth ...
... mean that there is some physiological difference . This physiological difference is like a difference in what is called the " sensitiv- ity " of photographic plates . Some plates , you know , will photograph anything in one - fiftieth ...
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... means a very extraordinary life and still more extraordinary force of character . You can imagine for yourselves the ... mean the moral revelation . The difficulties in the way of success are not so much those which men are accustomed to ...
... means a very extraordinary life and still more extraordinary force of character . You can imagine for yourselves the ... mean the moral revelation . The difficulties in the way of success are not so much those which men are accustomed to ...
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