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Page 120
... apparently resolved dilemma . For Johnson is at once a very solid and definitive separatist in entanglements and yet also a great re - engager with the slippery and the overlapping when once he has set up his firm terms of operation ...
... apparently resolved dilemma . For Johnson is at once a very solid and definitive separatist in entanglements and yet also a great re - engager with the slippery and the overlapping when once he has set up his firm terms of operation ...
Page 136
... apparently closed history . Inside that mind , behind the distilled sentences that could barely end if they admitted all he thought and doubted , or tried to trace all the contexts in which good became bad and vice versa , we can sense ...
... apparently closed history . Inside that mind , behind the distilled sentences that could barely end if they admitted all he thought and doubted , or tried to trace all the contexts in which good became bad and vice versa , we can sense ...
Page 242
... apparently no different from living an ordinary life . It is the same double - bind as that by which he is unlike others most of all in thinking himself all too like them ( as George Eliot says of Farebrother , the Vicar in Middlemarch ) ...
... apparently no different from living an ordinary life . It is the same double - bind as that by which he is unlike others most of all in thinking himself all too like them ( as George Eliot says of Farebrother , the Vicar in Middlemarch ) ...
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Almost every man will be found to have enlisted | 10 |
Discoursing like an angel living like a | 21 |
The System of Life | 42 |
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