The English Essay and EssayistJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1934 - 343 pages |
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... sense could have been so uniformly right as he . Taste alone will not do , for taste is apt to have a bias - Lamb's certainly had for the quaint and the antique . But good sense makes him sub- stantially right even where his own ...
... sense could have been so uniformly right as he . Taste alone will not do , for taste is apt to have a bias - Lamb's certainly had for the quaint and the antique . But good sense makes him sub- stantially right even where his own ...
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... sense affords no basis for ultimate belief at all . Good enough , in most cases , as a practical guide , it is useless for the discovery of truth . Com- mon sense tells us that the sun goes round the earth , and yet in this matter ...
... sense affords no basis for ultimate belief at all . Good enough , in most cases , as a practical guide , it is useless for the discovery of truth . Com- mon sense tells us that the sun goes round the earth , and yet in this matter ...
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... sense of the hopelessness of any such attempt . He did not share Ruskin's confidence ; and while Ruskin , on the verge of fifty , was in Time and Tide criticising the social ideals of others and proposing to substitute for them a new ...
... sense of the hopelessness of any such attempt . He did not share Ruskin's confidence ; and while Ruskin , on the verge of fifty , was in Time and Tide criticising the social ideals of others and proposing to substitute for them a new ...
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