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Both Crites and Neander , for instance , take into account the expectations of the audience for which they write : And this , Sir , calls to my remembrance the beginning of your discourse , where you told us we should never find the ...
Both Crites and Neander , for instance , take into account the expectations of the audience for which they write : And this , Sir , calls to my remembrance the beginning of your discourse , where you told us we should never find the ...
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... would never so much prejudice or even ruin our families , could never reach many ; whereas charity , in the other and truer sense , might be extended to all mankind . ' ( II , v ) Berkeley never makes candour mean as much as this .
... would never so much prejudice or even ruin our families , could never reach many ; whereas charity , in the other and truer sense , might be extended to all mankind . ' ( II , v ) Berkeley never makes candour mean as much as this .
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But , can you think it no more than a philosophical paradox , to say that real sounds are never heard , and that the idea of them is obtained by some other sense ? And is there nothing in this contrary to nature and the truth of things ...
But , can you think it no more than a philosophical paradox , to say that real sounds are never heard , and that the idea of them is obtained by some other sense ? And is there nothing in this contrary to nature and the truth of things ...
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Contents
Chaucer and One Idea of Englishness 1972 | 7 |
A Reading of The Oceans Love to Cynthia 1960 | 13 |
Shakespeare and the Practising Poet Today 1976 | 31 |
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| Title | Older Masters: Essays and Reflections on English and American Literature G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series |
| Author | Donald Davie |
| Publisher | Carcanet, 1992 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Feb 29, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0856359793, 9780856359798 |
| Length | 328 pages |
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