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... nature , though not by birth , Meredith sees life in the terms of the ascending effort which the recently discovered theory of natural selection imposed upon the progressively - minded men of his day . Meredith believed in hard thinking ...
... nature , though not by birth , Meredith sees life in the terms of the ascending effort which the recently discovered theory of natural selection imposed upon the progressively - minded men of his day . Meredith believed in hard thinking ...
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... nature cannot be com- manded except by being obeyed , and urged close and accurate observations and slow and careful conclusions , " for the subtlety of nature is many times greater than the subtlety of our logic . " He looked upon human ...
... nature cannot be com- manded except by being obeyed , and urged close and accurate observations and slow and careful conclusions , " for the subtlety of nature is many times greater than the subtlety of our logic . " He looked upon human ...
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... Nature everywhere , but was never so bold to go beyond her ; and there is a great difference of being poeta and nimis poeta , if we may believe Catullus , as much as betwixt a modest behaviour and affectation . The verse of Chaucer , I ...
... Nature everywhere , but was never so bold to go beyond her ; and there is a great difference of being poeta and nimis poeta , if we may believe Catullus , as much as betwixt a modest behaviour and affectation . The verse of Chaucer , I ...
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READING MAKETH A FULL MAN by Geoffrey Crump M | 15 |
A MIRROR HELD UP TO LIFE | 24 |
TOM JONES IN TROUBLE Henry Fielding | 59 |
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