The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 128Atlantic Monthly Company, 1921 - American essays |
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Beau- ty and truth that do not reach religion do not reach the human heart . An edu- cation that lacks religion must lack authority , because it cannot know who made the flat - headed adder , who flies with the wild duck , who works in ...
Beau- ty and truth that do not reach religion do not reach the human heart . An edu- cation that lacks religion must lack authority , because it cannot know who made the flat - headed adder , who flies with the wild duck , who works in ...
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That is : if one bad picture is released , a million people will see it ; whereas a dozen bad plays reach only a very few spectators in comparison . According to all that I Little Wild Rose and the Blight that Fell upon It.
That is : if one bad picture is released , a million people will see it ; whereas a dozen bad plays reach only a very few spectators in comparison . According to all that I Little Wild Rose and the Blight that Fell upon It.
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The people who can afford Broadway plays , or who have Broadway theatres within their reach , are not the ones who create the depend- able movie audience . It is the people who never could afford the first - class theatres , or who do ...
The people who can afford Broadway plays , or who have Broadway theatres within their reach , are not the ones who create the depend- able movie audience . It is the people who never could afford the first - class theatres , or who do ...
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To - morrow the cable will reach his home in England . He was an only child , and they are the great people of the village where we are little people . I knew his mother as one knows a great lady who is kind to all the village folk .
To - morrow the cable will reach his home in England . He was an only child , and they are the great people of the village where we are little people . I knew his mother as one knows a great lady who is kind to all the village folk .
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But he persisted , and I watched him reach the nest , after two hours of tugging and falling and interference with traffic . Occasionally an ant will slip in cross- ing a twiggy crevasse , and his leaf be- come ...
But he persisted , and I watched him reach the nest , after two hours of tugging and falling and interference with traffic . Occasionally an ant will slip in cross- ing a twiggy crevasse , and his leaf be- come ...
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