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Page 53
... social and economic organisation but rather a state of mind ' ; the connections between all three are not so easily ... social vacuum and , as I have stressed , has been im- plicated throughout its existence with social , ideological and ...
... social and economic organisation but rather a state of mind ' ; the connections between all three are not so easily ... social vacuum and , as I have stressed , has been im- plicated throughout its existence with social , ideological and ...
Page 124
... social life make English habits unyielding to sim- plification , while understatement and irony - in which all classes of this island converse- upset the normal emphasis of reported speech . In his fascinated awareness of these ...
... social life make English habits unyielding to sim- plification , while understatement and irony - in which all classes of this island converse- upset the normal emphasis of reported speech . In his fascinated awareness of these ...
Page 126
... social one . What we are offered instead is a dubious kind of detachment , a front seat at the social show . Both authors probably inherit this transaction from the great example of Proust , whose whole vast social structure exists ...
... social one . What we are offered instead is a dubious kind of detachment , a front seat at the social show . Both authors probably inherit this transaction from the great example of Proust , whose whole vast social structure exists ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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