A Study of English Prose Writers: A Laboratory MethodC. Scribner's sons, 1898 - 879 Seiten |
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... called one of the wisest of mankind . The word wisdom • characterizes him more than any other . He had great sagacity of observation , solidity of judgment , and scope of fancy . " - Hazlitt . " His sagacity and knowledge of state ...
... called one of the wisest of mankind . The word wisdom • characterizes him more than any other . He had great sagacity of observation , solidity of judgment , and scope of fancy . " - Hazlitt . " His sagacity and knowledge of state ...
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... called to defend himself and his cause with the same weapons that his enemies used . We have his own confession that he entered the contest un- willingly , for he says : " Surely , to every good and peaceable man , it must in nature ...
... called to defend himself and his cause with the same weapons that his enemies used . We have his own confession that he entered the contest un- willingly , for he says : " Surely , to every good and peaceable man , it must in nature ...
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... called easy reading perhaps too well , especially in our hours of relaxation ; but we love , too , to have our faculties tasked by master - spirits . We delight in long sentences in which a great truth , instead of being broken up into ...
... called easy reading perhaps too well , especially in our hours of relaxation ; but we love , too , to have our faculties tasked by master - spirits . We delight in long sentences in which a great truth , instead of being broken up into ...
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... called Mil- ton " the moral king of English literature . " In his second Defence of the People of England , Milton declares , concern- ing his experience on the Continent : " I again take God to witness that , in all those places where ...
... called Mil- ton " the moral king of English literature . " In his second Defence of the People of England , Milton declares , concern- ing his experience on the Continent : " I again take God to witness that , in all those places where ...
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... called from school to help his father , and soon forgets his learning , as he says , " even almost utterly ; " the loss of his mother , in June , 1644 , and the prompt advent of a step - mother estrange him from his home and induce him ...
... called from school to help his father , and soon forgets his learning , as he says , " even almost utterly ; " the loss of his mother , in June , 1644 , and the prompt advent of a step - mother estrange him from his home and induce him ...
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