Critical and Historical Essays, Volume 1J. M. Dent, 1961 |
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Page 154
... able reasoning on the subject as is to be found in the Fable of the Bees . But could Mandeville have created an Iago ? Well as he knew how to resolve characters into their elements , would he have been able to combine those elements in ...
... able reasoning on the subject as is to be found in the Fable of the Bees . But could Mandeville have created an Iago ? Well as he knew how to resolve characters into their elements , would he have been able to combine those elements in ...
Page 465
... able to keep them all in perfect subordination to himself , and in perfect harmony with other . We shall soon see how the experiment succeeded . On the very day on which the new Prime Minister kissed hands , three - fourths of that ...
... able to keep them all in perfect subordination to himself , and in perfect harmony with other . We shall soon see how the experiment succeeded . On the very day on which the new Prime Minister kissed hands , three - fourths of that ...
Page 625
... able to live in the past and in the future , in the distant and in the unreal . India and its inhabitants were not to him , as to most Englishmen , mere names and abstractions , but a real country and a real people . The burning sun ...
... able to live in the past and in the future , in the distant and in the unreal . India and its inhabitants were not to him , as to most Englishmen , mere names and abstractions , but a real country and a real people . The burning sun ...
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