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... kind of thing - the Carker and Edith Dombey kind of thing - that is likely to be bad in Dickens ; but here it has a certain reality and a cer- tain unpleasant power . Who can forget the top- hatted schoolmaster striking his fist against ...
... kind of thing - the Carker and Edith Dombey kind of thing - that is likely to be bad in Dickens ; but here it has a certain reality and a cer- tain unpleasant power . Who can forget the top- hatted schoolmaster striking his fist against ...
Page 113
... kind of man , and that the sole duty of the revolutionary socialist is to get the counter - revolutionary gang before they get him . But ideas , however correct , will never prevail by themselves : there must be people who are prepared ...
... kind of man , and that the sole duty of the revolutionary socialist is to get the counter - revolutionary gang before they get him . But ideas , however correct , will never prevail by themselves : there must be people who are prepared ...
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... kind of scholar ; he is preoccupied with the emendation of texts . He could never have been guilty of the extravagances of a Gilbert Murray or a Verrall , but he was not capable of their kind of illumination . Note his assumption , in ...
... kind of scholar ; he is preoccupied with the emendation of texts . He could never have been guilty of the extravagances of a Gilbert Murray or a Verrall , but he was not capable of their kind of illumination . Note his assumption , in ...
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