for a long time ago i have wanted to write an Inside book about the Soviet Union, and this is it. In general it follows the pettern of Inside Europe, Inside U.S.A, Inside Africa, and so on, but the canvas is more restricted still, big enough. After all the Soviet Union covers close to one-sixth of the land surface of the globe, and has put its own moons into the sky.
To attempt an introduction to a Guide to Devon and Cornwall is rather like trying to describe an apple and an orange in the same breath From an appropriate distance the two objects have a strong resemblance, the nearer you approach them the more different from each other they prove to be. No two adjoining counties in England are, I fancy, so dissımılar. It is even difficult for the casual tou…
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For some time I have been interested in the changing fortunes of the adjective old-fashioned. I find it significant that this adjective has by now shed all of its pejorative associations. For example, the Oxford English Dictionary shows that a century ago old-fashioned had a wide currency in the sense of a child having the ways of a grown-up person, hence, precocious, knowing." Dickens would ha…
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when we first planned the volumes for the ford humanities project at pricenton we set as our goal a series of essays that would be contributions to that part of american intelectual history which has to do with humanistic scholarship" the present volume is such a contributions and more to. for it apperas that historical scholarship occupies so central and commanding a position in america today …