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... human nature in their books , there are others who have made little use of it , and who yet - as Jane Austen and Thackeray have done - achieve their prominent places as securely as the others . Jane Austen is to me the greatest wonder ...
... human nature in their books , there are others who have made little use of it , and who yet - as Jane Austen and Thackeray have done - achieve their prominent places as securely as the others . Jane Austen is to me the greatest wonder ...
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... human nature , they are not slight . 6 Another class of novel depending not so much for interest upon development of character is that of adventure , novels of the Homeric kind , such as those of Dumas for instance- ' Monte Cristo ' and ...
... human nature , they are not slight . 6 Another class of novel depending not so much for interest upon development of character is that of adventure , novels of the Homeric kind , such as those of Dumas for instance- ' Monte Cristo ' and ...
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... human needs , and giving sustained human pleasure ; and it is a great mistake to let new literature divert us from reading the old . Isaac Disraeli says somewhere that great books lead us to a proper per- spective and sense of the ...
... human needs , and giving sustained human pleasure ; and it is a great mistake to let new literature divert us from reading the old . Isaac Disraeli says somewhere that great books lead us to a proper per- spective and sense of the ...
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... humanity for its medium , is imper- fection personified . Wherefore we shall go on doing the best we can ; and , on the whole , as it is the purpose of this paper to demonstrate , if we will but admit that , perfection being ...
... humanity for its medium , is imper- fection personified . Wherefore we shall go on doing the best we can ; and , on the whole , as it is the purpose of this paper to demonstrate , if we will but admit that , perfection being ...
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... a combination of forces , foreign one to another , which taken together are more effective than the separate components , and therefore possess a power superior to theirs . Should the equilibrium be disturbed in this order of human society.
... a combination of forces , foreign one to another , which taken together are more effective than the separate components , and therefore possess a power superior to theirs . Should the equilibrium be disturbed in this order of human society.
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