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... memory of our evolution . Through such language , art and sympathy are thus near kin for Johnson . Life is full of particular lost stories , stories that art does not often recover but on the memory of which art draws and depends for ...
... memory of our evolution . Through such language , art and sympathy are thus near kin for Johnson . Life is full of particular lost stories , stories that art does not often recover but on the memory of which art draws and depends for ...
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... memory of The Rambler Consider one of Johnson's reminder - sentences , from The Rambler , 28 : ' One sophism by which men persuade themselves that they have those virtues which they really want , is formed by the substitution of single ...
... memory of The Rambler Consider one of Johnson's reminder - sentences , from The Rambler , 28 : ' One sophism by which men persuade themselves that they have those virtues which they really want , is formed by the substitution of single ...
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... memory of the human disposition to hang above his physical life ; he pulls it down into that life as a fate or a fake , using his own existence as an experiment to see if Truth was true . The one man under memory , with the bounds of ...
... memory of the human disposition to hang above his physical life ; he pulls it down into that life as a fate or a fake , using his own existence as an experiment to see if Truth was true . The one man under memory , with the bounds of ...
Contents
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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