The Great English Essayists: With Introductory Essays and NotesHarper & brothers, 1909 - 351 pagina's |
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... thought , experience , and observation . Its relation to the spoken word is obvious . Even in our own day the public address , reduced to writing , is accepted as an essay ; and it is tolerably certain that the essay commenced its ...
... thought , experience , and observation . Its relation to the spoken word is obvious . Even in our own day the public address , reduced to writing , is accepted as an essay ; and it is tolerably certain that the essay commenced its ...
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... thought , acquiring influence and reputation , much as a university - extension lecturer of to - day might do ; but while they thus used the spoken word , their prelections , wherever they have been preserved , observe either the ...
... thought , acquiring influence and reputation , much as a university - extension lecturer of to - day might do ; but while they thus used the spoken word , their prelections , wherever they have been preserved , observe either the ...
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... thoughts , his subtlest emotions , his most endearing follies , in the assured faith that we cannot be less interested in himself than he is . The influence of Montaigne on English literature has been so great that it would involve no ...
... thoughts , his subtlest emotions , his most endearing follies , in the assured faith that we cannot be less interested in himself than he is . The influence of Montaigne on English literature has been so great that it would involve no ...
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... thoughts with the unashamed nakedness of Montaigne , he at least surpassed Bacon in this , that he wrote less to ... thought , not what he did , he being solely interested in ideas . Bacon preaches at the world ; Burton diagnoses his ...
... thoughts with the unashamed nakedness of Montaigne , he at least surpassed Bacon in this , that he wrote less to ... thought , not what he did , he being solely interested in ideas . Bacon preaches at the world ; Burton diagnoses his ...
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... thought and helped to enfranchise the medium through which he worked , not by adding anything fresh to its mechanism , but by making it spacious with the largeness of his own imagination . At the same time , this upward gaze prevented ...
... thought and helped to enfranchise the medium through which he worked , not by adding anything fresh to its mechanism , but by making it spacious with the largeness of his own imagination . At the same time , this upward gaze prevented ...
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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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