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i. In reciting a passage of a light and humorous character it is by no means unusual for a man with an average voice to have a range of intonation of over two octaves.

2. It is this very silence of the poet that makes the verse all the more eloquent.

3. Only in this last work does the author show what he might have done, had he used his genius rightly.

4. These plays were not high either in their humour or in literary worth, but they did represent a distinct advance towards regular drama.

5. It was not the classics themselves as much as the works of Italy and France above mentioned, which had so

important an influence on the poets to be presently considered, particularly on Chaucer.

6. Fragmentary though our knowledge is of the total achievement of the Greek sculptors, we need have no doubt that from what does remain we can estimate quite accurately the full strength and weakness of Hellenistic sculpture at any point between its origins and its final decay.

7. The basis of man's social activity is labour. It is in and through labour that man first of all enlarges his perceptions and first of all begins to use his brain to think — to form ideas and to communicate them, to develop thought and language.

8. In no wise ¹¹ inferior in importance to the art stations of Southern France are those of Northern. Here, near Santillana del Mar is the cave of Altamira, which has been not unaptly termed «The Chapel of Palaeolithic Art».

9. However much the Emperor and the Crusader princes might quarrel over their ultimate rights and the distribution of conquests to come, there could be no dissension about the opening stages of the campaign against the infidel.

10. These novels are by no means forgotten at the present day, and might not improbably have a return of their popularity, which was at one time great.

11. It is as our perceptions increase with increased activity and social contacts that our ideas develop.

12. It is not merely in particular places that we find a beautiful effect; it is rather the continuous charm of his poetry, the sense of harmony that runs throughout that makes us feel his greatness.

13. Hunting by means of surprise in the case of sleeping or exhausted animals would also be practised — a means in common use with the Bushmen, who have brought it to the height of perfection. Neither is it impossible that the use of lasso, throwing-stick and snare was known.

14. It also not infrequently happened that the people of this period chose the suitable pieces of broken clay vessels and ground them into knives.

15. However hard they may work and however much they may scrape and save, the non-possessors will remain

in no wise — ни коим образом.

poor, while the possessors grow rich on the fruits of their labour.

16. It was during the time when Latin was still spoken, however, that the first modifications had to be made in the alphabet.

17. And indeed, from these first beginnings, it has always been through their advancing Mastery over nature that succeeding generations of men have come to know more and more of the properties of natural objects: each stage of advance has meant enlarged perceptions, new discoveries, wider horizons.