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Pagina 6
... natural mother and protector of this movement was the Church ; she alone of all feudal institutions had created and preserved cloisters and quiet places in the midst of baronial contentions , where men might seek other than material ...
... natural mother and protector of this movement was the Church ; she alone of all feudal institutions had created and preserved cloisters and quiet places in the midst of baronial contentions , where men might seek other than material ...
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... nature of a secular homily or dissertation , the reason is obvious ; the essay in its European develop- ment has been closely associated with the pulpit . Had books been never so accessible in medieval times , they would have been of no ...
... nature of a secular homily or dissertation , the reason is obvious ; the essay in its European develop- ment has been closely associated with the pulpit . Had books been never so accessible in medieval times , they would have been of no ...
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... nature's first and uncorrupted lawes , I assure thee , I would most willingly have pourtrayed my selfe fully and naked . Thus gentle reader my selfe am the groundworke of my booke . " No exposition of Montaigne's method could be so ...
... nature's first and uncorrupted lawes , I assure thee , I would most willingly have pourtrayed my selfe fully and naked . Thus gentle reader my selfe am the groundworke of my booke . " No exposition of Montaigne's method could be so ...
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... nature of the essay . If lyric verse may be described as a swallow- flight of song , the essay may equally be described as a swallow - flight of prose . Compared with the ponderous la- bour of the lexicographer , it appears an indolent ...
... nature of the essay . If lyric verse may be described as a swallow- flight of song , the essay may equally be described as a swallow - flight of prose . Compared with the ponderous la- bour of the lexicographer , it appears an indolent ...
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... and how it braves the nature and value of things by this , that the speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but in love . Neither is it merely in the phrase ; for whereas it hath been well said , that the FRANCIS BACON 29.
... and how it braves the nature and value of things by this , that the speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but in love . Neither is it merely in the phrase ; for whereas it hath been well said , that the FRANCIS BACON 29.
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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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