The Essay: A Critical AnthologyJohn Lincoln Stewart Essays for both the student and the general reader, with comment by the editor. |
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... sense of bal- ance works ; but as the airplane peels off into its spiral dive , its motions are such that the sense of balance remains satisfied , regardless of how steep the bank becomes , how sharp the turn . Even when the airplane ...
... sense of bal- ance works ; but as the airplane peels off into its spiral dive , its motions are such that the sense of balance remains satisfied , regardless of how steep the bank becomes , how sharp the turn . Even when the airplane ...
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... sense them , and the existing instruments were essentially nothing but mechanizations of natural sensing . An airplane's speed indicator , for example , is much like the hand which you might hold into the water from a rowboat to feel ...
... sense them , and the existing instruments were essentially nothing but mechanizations of natural sensing . An airplane's speed indicator , for example , is much like the hand which you might hold into the water from a rowboat to feel ...
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... sense , in religious idealism , and ( as Whitman declared ) in “ the manly love of comrades . " American civilization has never sufficiently developed this sense of form , order , and underlying harmony , as its literature , its ...
... sense , in religious idealism , and ( as Whitman declared ) in “ the manly love of comrades . " American civilization has never sufficiently developed this sense of form , order , and underlying harmony , as its literature , its ...
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Introductory Comment | 3 |
When Conan Doyle Was Sherlock Holmes JOHN DICKSON CARR | 11 |
New England Xanadu SIGMUND DIAMOND | 32 |
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