The Voices of ProseMcGraw-Hill, 1966 - 515 pages Contains a range of prose pieces with questions for discussion and exercises on each. |
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Page 119
... merely polished , but totally recast . For this not only wastes time ; it is sometimes curiously difficult , once a piece of writing has been started on the wrong lines , to obliterate the memory of it , and begin afresh . Once the ...
... merely polished , but totally recast . For this not only wastes time ; it is sometimes curiously difficult , once a piece of writing has been started on the wrong lines , to obliterate the memory of it , and begin afresh . Once the ...
Page 337
... merely a hypothesis , so far , and my own . But people — and their ancestors have been eating according to flavor for upwards of a billion years . The need to satisfy the sense of taste may be innate and important . When food is merely ...
... merely a hypothesis , so far , and my own . But people — and their ancestors have been eating according to flavor for upwards of a billion years . The need to satisfy the sense of taste may be innate and important . When food is merely ...
Page 372
... merely that we happen to prefer the first , then we must give up talking about good and evil at all . For good means ... mere sake of goodness : you can't be bad for the mere sake of badness . You can do a kind action when you're not ...
... merely that we happen to prefer the first , then we must give up talking about good and evil at all . For good means ... mere sake of goodness : you can't be bad for the mere sake of badness . You can do a kind action when you're not ...
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RESOURCES IN ART AND FORM | 37 |
RESOURCES IN LOGIC | 55 |
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Ahab Alice American argument artist beauty believe better C. P. Snow C. S. Lewis called Christian COMPOSITION Compson course culture D. H. Lawrence death Dormouse duckspeak effect emotion English essay Etruscan evil example existence Existentialism experience express eyes fact feel force GEORGE ORWELL give hand human ideas idols imagination Ingsoc kind knew L'Assommoir language less living look man-apes March Hare matter meaning merely mind Moby Dick modern nature never Nevermore Newspeak nouns once organization paragraph perhaps person philosophy phrases Plato poem poet poetry political possible prose Queequeg question Raleigh reader reason religion scientific scientists seems sense sentence simple social society soul style T. S. Eliot things thought tion TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION true truth understanding universe vocabulary whale whole words writing