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Page 43
... personalities com- bined with a sort of detached solicitude , a respect for their free- dom . This might be indeed ... personality has gone down in the world . ( 1960 : pp . 7-8 ) The disagreement about whether character is substantive ...
... personalities com- bined with a sort of detached solicitude , a respect for their free- dom . This might be indeed ... personality has gone down in the world . ( 1960 : pp . 7-8 ) The disagreement about whether character is substantive ...
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... personality in depth , but with the interrelations between a group of characters , none of whom need be so fully realised . The peculiar structure of The Masters means that Snow's weaknesses are less apparent than usual , while at the ...
... personality in depth , but with the interrelations between a group of characters , none of whom need be so fully realised . The peculiar structure of The Masters means that Snow's weaknesses are less apparent than usual , while at the ...
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... personality : It was strangely warming to be sitting there , in that safe room , as the noise grew . It was like lying in front of the fire as a child , while the wind moaned and the rain thrashed against the win- dows . It gave just ...
... personality : It was strangely warming to be sitting there , in that safe room , as the noise grew . It was like lying in front of the fire as a child , while the wind moaned and the rain thrashed against the win- dows . It gave just ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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