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... literary art , has its roots in remote antiquity . It is in origin a brief discourse , a compact homily , a compendium of thought , experience , and observation . Its relation to the spoken word is obvious . Even in our own day the ...
... literary art , has its roots in remote antiquity . It is in origin a brief discourse , a compact homily , a compendium of thought , experience , and observation . Its relation to the spoken word is obvious . Even in our own day the ...
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... literary form . Mr. R. G. Moulton , in his admirable Modern Readers ' Bible , has rendered a great service to literature by enabling the reader to distinguish the great variety of method practised in these wisdom - books . What appears ...
... literary form . Mr. R. G. Moulton , in his admirable Modern Readers ' Bible , has rendered a great service to literature by enabling the reader to distinguish the great variety of method practised in these wisdom - books . What appears ...
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... literary expression , until in Cicero we come to the greatest of ancient essayists . We have already seen ( vide Great English Letter - Writers , vol . i , p . 14 ) that Cicero was a pioneer in the art of letter - writing , who set the ...
... literary expression , until in Cicero we come to the greatest of ancient essayists . We have already seen ( vide Great English Letter - Writers , vol . i , p . 14 ) that Cicero was a pioneer in the art of letter - writing , who set the ...
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... literary publication for the vast majority of men . It must be remembered also that culture was very largely confined to ecclesiastics , who naturally found the spoken word the most convenient vehicle for imparting ideas . One of the ...
... literary publication for the vast majority of men . It must be remembered also that culture was very largely confined to ecclesiastics , who naturally found the spoken word the most convenient vehicle for imparting ideas . One of the ...
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... literary expression . It will be readily perceived that the lectures of these mediæval teachers must have borne a strong resemblance to the essay , and were indeed spoken essays . The teachers themselves belonged for the most part to ...
... literary expression . It will be readily perceived that the lectures of these mediæval teachers must have borne a strong resemblance to the essay , and were indeed spoken essays . The teachers themselves belonged for the most part to ...
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The Great English Essayists: With Introductory Essays and Notes William James Dawson,Coningsby Dawson Volledige weergave - 1909 |
The Great English Essayists: With Introductory Essays and Notes William James Dawson,Coningsby Dawson Volledige weergave - 1909 |
The Great English Essayists: With Introductory Essays and Notes William James Dawson,Coningsby Dawson Volledige weergave - 1909 |
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