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... doubt if its insidious temptations , in any previous epoch , were ever greater . For the whole set of the tide of our intellectual life makes it difficult , if not impossible , to be unashamedly simple . No more than material poverty is ...
... doubt if its insidious temptations , in any previous epoch , were ever greater . For the whole set of the tide of our intellectual life makes it difficult , if not impossible , to be unashamedly simple . No more than material poverty is ...
Page 95
... doubts of the wisdom of so very extensive a demonstration , repeated time after time , of the same Q.E.D. His nervousness about this prompts the parting advice of the God of Love , in version F of the Prologue ( lines 570-577 ) , and he ...
... doubts of the wisdom of so very extensive a demonstration , repeated time after time , of the same Q.E.D. His nervousness about this prompts the parting advice of the God of Love , in version F of the Prologue ( lines 570-577 ) , and he ...
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Bertrand Harris Bronson. doubt that the kind of frame which would first have sug- gested itself to Chaucer for such pieces , since frame there must be , would have been that of the dream - vision . The vision framework , in fact , was ...
Bertrand Harris Bronson. doubt that the kind of frame which would first have sug- gested itself to Chaucer for such pieces , since frame there must be , would have been that of the dream - vision . The vision framework , in fact , was ...
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