The Borzoi College ReaderCharles Muscatine, Marlene Griffith |
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... essays transmit . Good writing , we mean to suggest , comes from a person who not only commands some verbal skill but has something he wants to say . Our ideal essay is a rational statement - propelled by conviction . We agree with ...
... essays transmit . Good writing , we mean to suggest , comes from a person who not only commands some verbal skill but has something he wants to say . Our ideal essay is a rational statement - propelled by conviction . We agree with ...
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... essay by Aldous Huxley printed in this section similarly suggests forcible , topical , practical arguments - in this case for thought as necessary pro- tection against political annihilation . But what we accept rationally we often find ...
... essay by Aldous Huxley printed in this section similarly suggests forcible , topical , practical arguments - in this case for thought as necessary pro- tection against political annihilation . But what we accept rationally we often find ...
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... essay " our intellectual Declaration of Independence . " Its appeal to " literary na- tionalism " ( here somewhat muffled by our omission of the final fifth of the essay ) is perhaps less important than its recording of a stage in the ...
... essay " our intellectual Declaration of Independence . " Its appeal to " literary na- tionalism " ( here somewhat muffled by our omission of the final fifth of the essay ) is perhaps less important than its recording of a stage in the ...
Contents
THE NECESSITY FOR THINKING | 3 |
John Henry Newman | 43 |
THE RIGHT USE OF LANGUAGE | 57 |
Copyright | |
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