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Page 66
... sense of " loss or want " does not seem to have been cured by all this . " My father was like a mad- man , " says Mrs. Perugini , " when my mother left home . This affair brought out all that was worst — all that was weakest in him . He ...
... sense of " loss or want " does not seem to have been cured by all this . " My father was like a mad- man , " says Mrs. Perugini , " when my mother left home . This affair brought out all that was worst — all that was weakest in him . He ...
Page 96
... sense of what happens and the way in which it happens into something as hard and clear as a crystal but as disturbing as a great lyric . Yet it is usually some principle of courage , of honor , of pity — that is , some principle of ...
... sense of what happens and the way in which it happens into something as hard and clear as a crystal but as disturbing as a great lyric . Yet it is usually some principle of courage , of honor , of pity — that is , some principle of ...
Page 137
... sense of justice have prevented him from assailing the capitalist system with such intolerant resentment and unscrupulous methods as Voltaire trained on the Church . With Voltaire , it is the crusader that counts ; with Shaw , it is the ...
... sense of justice have prevented him from assailing the capitalist system with such intolerant resentment and unscrupulous methods as Voltaire trained on the Church . With Voltaire , it is the crusader that counts ; with Shaw , it is the ...
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