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... Expression , " since they represent typical short units of the sort an author extends or combines when he writes a longer piece , are relatively simple both in their content and in their method . Questions along the margins require the ...
... Expression , " since they represent typical short units of the sort an author extends or combines when he writes a longer piece , are relatively simple both in their content and in their method . Questions along the margins require the ...
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... expression in every line that he writes . We can't understand the work unless we can understand the psychic traits that have gained expression in it . We may never be able to trace back these traits to their ultimate sources and causes ...
... expression in every line that he writes . We can't understand the work unless we can understand the psychic traits that have gained expression in it . We may never be able to trace back these traits to their ultimate sources and causes ...
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... expression of its qualities , two little com- positions in early French ; not because they constitute the best pos- sible expression of them , but because they help the unity of my series , inasmuch as the Renaissance ends also in ...
... expression of its qualities , two little com- positions in early French ; not because they constitute the best pos- sible expression of them , but because they help the unity of my series , inasmuch as the Renaissance ends also in ...
Contents
SPACE ARRANGEMENT The Battlefield of Waterloo | 7 |
COMPARISON AND CONTRAST True and False Humor | 13 |
ANALOGY The Stagecoach from Looking Backward Edward Bellamy | 19 |
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