MacMillan's Magazine, Volume 73Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris 1896 |
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... heart of a Chinese is a vastly different matter from bringing the same to , let us say , a South Sea Islander . In the one instance you have a gross and idolatrous savage , who more often than not has a feeling of admiration for a white ...
... heart of a Chinese is a vastly different matter from bringing the same to , let us say , a South Sea Islander . In the one instance you have a gross and idolatrous savage , who more often than not has a feeling of admiration for a white ...
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... in circumstances tending very readily to enmity , been so relatively few and the converts so relatively numerous . No. 433. - Vol . LXXIII . 18 PROSPER MÉRIMÉE'S heart was a posthumous discovery , first Missionaries in China . 17.
... in circumstances tending very readily to enmity , been so relatively few and the converts so relatively numerous . No. 433. - Vol . LXXIII . 18 PROSPER MÉRIMÉE'S heart was a posthumous discovery , first Missionaries in China . 17.
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... heart was a posthumous discovery , first revealed to the world by the publication of the famous LETTRES À UNE INCONNUE ; since then , as is usual with such discoveries , the tendency has been rather to exaggerate the extent of a ...
... heart was a posthumous discovery , first revealed to the world by the publication of the famous LETTRES À UNE INCONNUE ; since then , as is usual with such discoveries , the tendency has been rather to exaggerate the extent of a ...
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... heart . But we cannot linger over the official Mérimée , nor yet over Mérimée the historian , another of his numer- ous activities . The critical faculty , learning , and a terse lucid style ( the best French prose that can be found ...
... heart . But we cannot linger over the official Mérimée , nor yet over Mérimée the historian , another of his numer- ous activities . The critical faculty , learning , and a terse lucid style ( the best French prose that can be found ...
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... heart , as distinct from that senti- mentality which is the occasional relapse of cynicism ? Among animals , be it observed , Mérimée was most fond of cats . This fancy , shared by divers eminent men , is generally , we take it ...
... heart , as distinct from that senti- mentality which is the occasional relapse of cynicism ? Among animals , be it observed , Mérimée was most fond of cats . This fancy , shared by divers eminent men , is generally , we take it ...
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