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... universe . About all this poor Herbert discoursed to us lyrically , but with just that touch of humour and restraint required by the good taste which with him was a characteristic both in- herited from nineteenth - century ladies and ...
... universe . About all this poor Herbert discoursed to us lyrically , but with just that touch of humour and restraint required by the good taste which with him was a characteristic both in- herited from nineteenth - century ladies and ...
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... universe ; secondly to describe , as simply and clearly as he can , his personal life , his relation , not to history and the universe , but to persons and to himself , his record in the trivial , diffi- cult , fascinating art of living ...
... universe ; secondly to describe , as simply and clearly as he can , his personal life , his relation , not to history and the universe , but to persons and to himself , his record in the trivial , diffi- cult , fascinating art of living ...
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... universe , with its suns , planets , galaxies , atoms - old bearded Jehovah sitting up there on Mount Sinai amid the thunder and lightning and once in three thousand years showing his backside to a favoured Moses - that this omnipotent ...
... universe , with its suns , planets , galaxies , atoms - old bearded Jehovah sitting up there on Mount Sinai amid the thunder and lightning and once in three thousand years showing his backside to a favoured Moses - that this omnipotent ...
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