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Page 62
I knew what they meant : there is a sense in which the very air of America seems more highly charged , more oxygenated , than the atmosphere in England . Nevertheless , I wanted to know why excitement should be regarded as the supreme ...
I knew what they meant : there is a sense in which the very air of America seems more highly charged , more oxygenated , than the atmosphere in England . Nevertheless , I wanted to know why excitement should be regarded as the supreme ...
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Nevertheless I am happy to adapt this distinction for my own purposes ; ' Nature ' obviously has a good deal in common with what I have called the English ideology , and only in England does the concept of Nature seem alive : although ...
Nevertheless I am happy to adapt this distinction for my own purposes ; ' Nature ' obviously has a good deal in common with what I have called the English ideology , and only in England does the concept of Nature seem alive : although ...
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There is more here than a nostalgic preference for the decaying remains of rural or feudal England to the affluent small - scale hell of suburbia . It also indicates Burgess's vestigial Jansenist conviction that one is closer to ...
There is more here than a nostalgic preference for the decaying remains of rural or feudal England to the affluent small - scale hell of suburbia . It also indicates Burgess's vestigial Jansenist conviction that one is closer to ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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