The Quarterly Review, Volume 253William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1929 |
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Page 109
... human reaction to environment ? There is . The Vital Force of the human body will attempt to do the opposite of any action exerted upon it . The simplest illustrations are the best . What is the effect of plunging a healthy hand into ...
... human reaction to environment ? There is . The Vital Force of the human body will attempt to do the opposite of any action exerted upon it . The simplest illustrations are the best . What is the effect of plunging a healthy hand into ...
Page 154
... human nature so abnormal as to be hardly human . It has to be reckoned as the earliest of something like our modern detective fiction , rather than in its direct source . And now , having spoken more than once of the model of this ...
... human nature so abnormal as to be hardly human . It has to be reckoned as the earliest of something like our modern detective fiction , rather than in its direct source . And now , having spoken more than once of the model of this ...
Page 156
... human nature in our detective stories , and yet in this Rue Morgue affair , which you hold up as the type and model , the agency by which the murder is done is as absolutely non- human as can be . There is no human nature sketching at ...
... human nature in our detective stories , and yet in this Rue Morgue affair , which you hold up as the type and model , the agency by which the murder is done is as absolutely non- human as can be . There is no human nature sketching at ...
Contents
The Italianisation of South Tyrol | 1 |
The Menace of Disestablishment | 2 |
The Senses of Animals | 3 |
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