University of California Publications in English, Volume 8University of California Press, 1940 |
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Page 105
... simple , un- qualified by those conflicts with prejudice , passion , interest , and error which are commonplaces of experience in the ordinary world . The Houyhnhnms have no word for a lie , and they find doubt very hard to understand ...
... simple , un- qualified by those conflicts with prejudice , passion , interest , and error which are commonplaces of experience in the ordinary world . The Houyhnhnms have no word for a lie , and they find doubt very hard to understand ...
Page 115
... simple intuitive reason of the Houyhnhnms , " I began to view the actions and passions of man in a different light and to think the honor of my own kind not worth managing " ; " and that another great writer , but a scientist , Sir ...
... simple intuitive reason of the Houyhnhnms , " I began to view the actions and passions of man in a different light and to think the honor of my own kind not worth managing " ; " and that another great writer , but a scientist , Sir ...
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... simple unity , his hatred of any tincture of philosophical argument ; and it places him among those who believe that the surface is most im- portant and most real . Another consequence of his belief in simple unity , reason , and common ...
... simple unity , his hatred of any tincture of philosophical argument ; and it places him among those who believe that the surface is most im- portant and most real . Another consequence of his belief in simple unity , reason , and common ...
Contents
Chaucers Art in Relation to His Audience I | 1 |
Dramatist | 55 |
Hydriotaphia | 73 |
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