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... thing , that I formed nothing but dismal imaginations to myself , even though I was now a great way off it . Sometimes I fancied it must be the devil , and reason joined in with me upon this supposition ; for how should any other thing ...
... thing , that I formed nothing but dismal imaginations to myself , even though I was now a great way off it . Sometimes I fancied it must be the devil , and reason joined in with me upon this supposition ; for how should any other thing ...
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... thing in itself is a very small thing ; it is the thing behind the thing which is really the thing , you know . " Yet the English listener understands the meaning well enough . We could not give a logical reason for the nega- tives in ...
... thing in itself is a very small thing ; it is the thing behind the thing which is really the thing , you know . " Yet the English listener understands the meaning well enough . We could not give a logical reason for the nega- tives in ...
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... thing - when we wish to endow that thing with human qualities — we use who as the relative . Thus Wordsworth in his well - known Ode invokes Duty in the words- Stern Daughter of the Voice of God ! O Duty ! if that name thou love , Who ...
... thing - when we wish to endow that thing with human qualities — we use who as the relative . Thus Wordsworth in his well - known Ode invokes Duty in the words- Stern Daughter of the Voice of God ! O Duty ! if that name thou love , Who ...
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THE PURPOSE OF IT | 1 |
NEED FOR REVISION | 13 |
THE PURPOSE OF LANGUAGE | 25 |
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