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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
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The analyses of a text #1
The protagonist, Philip moved in with his uncle Mr. Carey, the Vicar of Blackstable after his mother's death.
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He delighted in the robust common sense of Thomas Hobbes; Spinoza filled him with awe, he had never before come in contact with a mind so noble, so unapproachable and austere; it reminded him of that statue by Rodin, L'Age d'Airain, which he passionately admired; and then there was Hume: the scepticism of that charming philosopher touched a kindred note in Philip; and, revelling in the lucid style which seemed able to put complicated thought into simple words, musical and measured, he read as he might have read a novel, a smile of pleasure on his lips. But in none could he find exactly what he wanted. He had read somewhere that every man was born a Platonist, an Aristotelian, a Stoic, or an Epicurean; and the history of George Henry Lewes (besides telling you that philosophy was all moonshine) was there to show that the thought of each philospher was inseparably connected with the man he was. When you knew that you could guess to a great extent the philosophy he wrote. It looked as though you did not act in a certain way because you thought in a certain way, but rather that you thought in a certain way because you were made in a certain way.
[Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham]
1. I'd like to know if the blue clause means "He had never before come in contact with a mind so noble, so unapproachable and austere that Spinoza filled him with awe."
2. I'd like to know if "with" is omitted before "a smile of pleasure on his lips."
3. I'd like to know why it is ". When," not "when."
4. And I'd like to know why it is "that," not "as though."
Thank you in advance for your help.
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He delighted in the robust common sense of Thomas Hobbes; Spinoza filled him with awe, he had never before come in contact with a mind so noble, so unapproachable and austere; it reminded him of that statue by Rodin, L'Age d'Airain, which he passionately admired; and then there was Hume: the scepticism of that charming philosopher touched a kindred note in Philip; and, revelling in the lucid style which seemed able to put complicated thought into simple words, musical and measured, he read as he might have read a novel, a smile of pleasure on his lips. But in none could he find exactly what he wanted. He had read somewhere that every man was born a Platonist, an Aristotelian, a Stoic, or an Epicurean; and the history of George Henry Lewes (besides telling you that philosophy was all moonshine) was there to show that the thought of each philospher was inseparably connected with the man he was. When you knew that you could guess to a great extent the philosophy he wrote. It looked as though you did not act in a certain way because you thought in a certain way, but rather that you thought in a certain way because you were made in a certain way.
[Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham]
1. I'd like to know if the blue clause means "He had never before come in contact with a mind so noble, so unapproachable and austere that Spinoza filled him with awe."
2. I'd like to know if "with" is omitted before "a smile of pleasure on his lips."
3. I'd like to know why it is ". When," not "when."
4. And I'd like to know why it is "that," not "as though."
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
1. No. That does not make much sense.
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- No.
- That does not make much sense.
- It may be the comma in the blue text that is confusing you.
- Strictly this is a comma splice.
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1. No. That does not make much sense. It may be the comma in the blue text that is confusing you. Strictly this is a comma splice. Normally the author might have used a semicolon or colon, but in this case it would be problematic because of the overall sentence structure.
2. Yes, in the sense that "with a smile of pleasure on his lips" is correct and means the same. However, when I read i
2. Yes, in the sense that "with a smile of pleasure on his lips" is correct and means the same. However, when I read i
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