The Achievement of American Criticism: Representative Selections from Three Hundred Years of American CriticismRonald Press Company, 1954 - 724 pages |
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Page 134
... human nature , and which give it a consciousness of its own powers , History has a noble use , for it shows us human beings in various and opposite conditions , in their strength and weakness , in their progress and relapses , and thus ...
... human nature , and which give it a consciousness of its own powers , History has a noble use , for it shows us human beings in various and opposite conditions , in their strength and weakness , in their progress and relapses , and thus ...
Page 139
... humanity , that he holds himself in respect . The institutions of the Old World all tend to throw obscurity over what we most need to know , and that is , the worth and claims of a human being We know that great improvements in this ...
... humanity , that he holds himself in respect . The institutions of the Old World all tend to throw obscurity over what we most need to know , and that is , the worth and claims of a human being We know that great improvements in this ...
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... human nature not in obscurity , but transparency , which , indeed , is the practice with most novelists , and is , perhaps , in certain cases , some way felt to be a kind of honour rendered by them to their kind . But whether it involve ...
... human nature not in obscurity , but transparency , which , indeed , is the practice with most novelists , and is , perhaps , in certain cases , some way felt to be a kind of honour rendered by them to their kind . But whether it involve ...
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