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... things are spiritual ' ; nor Swift's in A Tale of a Tub - ' Liberty is a spirit as alcohol is a spirit , for all things are material . ' The tone is not exultant , as with Berkeley , nor sardonic , as with Swift . It is sober . The old ...
... things are spiritual ' ; nor Swift's in A Tale of a Tub - ' Liberty is a spirit as alcohol is a spirit , for all things are material . ' The tone is not exultant , as with Berkeley , nor sardonic , as with Swift . It is sober . The old ...
Page 119
... things away : - ' The Christian religion , ' he said , ' was instituted for much nobler purposes than to enforce a ... things , believeth all things , hopeth all things , endureth all things ' , translated this by : ' It throws a vail of ...
... things away : - ' The Christian religion , ' he said , ' was instituted for much nobler purposes than to enforce a ... things , believeth all things , hopeth all things , endureth all things ' , translated this by : ' It throws a vail of ...
Page 122
... things ? Hyl . To deal ingenuously , I do not like it . And , after the con- cessions already made , I had as well grant that sounds too . have no real being without the mind . Phil . And I hope you will make no difficulty to ...
... things ? Hyl . To deal ingenuously , I do not like it . And , after the con- cessions already made , I had as well grant that sounds too . have no real being without the mind . Phil . And I hope you will make no difficulty to ...
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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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