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... memory of man doth not run , " --no time , that is , except one which the critic did not mention : the time of one's own childhood . Here was one past that did lie at least largely beyond the reach of memory , and what the memory could ...
... memory of man doth not run , " --no time , that is , except one which the critic did not mention : the time of one's own childhood . Here was one past that did lie at least largely beyond the reach of memory , and what the memory could ...
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... memory , yet for most of the sons there was no memory , strictly speaking . But what the memory could not produce , the imagination of the children could readily supply . The record which the imagination created was a mixture of what ...
... memory , yet for most of the sons there was no memory , strictly speaking . But what the memory could not produce , the imagination of the children could readily supply . The record which the imagination created was a mixture of what ...
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... memory at work . Memory , fame , immortality : these were the phenomena that linked one generation to the next . Virtue may once have been its own reward , but to this could now be added the greater reward of immortality . It was indeed ...
... memory at work . Memory , fame , immortality : these were the phenomena that linked one generation to the next . Virtue may once have been its own reward , but to this could now be added the greater reward of immortality . It was indeed ...
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