Select Essays of Addison: Together with Macaulay's Essay on Addison's Life and WritingsAllyn and Bacon, 1893 - 320 páginas |
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... - try and acumen . To treat English literature as if it lay the other side of the middle ages is to commit the absurdest mistake of modern scholastic methods . The notes appended to this selection from the writ- ings Introduction . xi.
... - try and acumen . To treat English literature as if it lay the other side of the middle ages is to commit the absurdest mistake of modern scholastic methods . The notes appended to this selection from the writ- ings Introduction . xi.
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... of history and biography are oftenest the ones to which students of literature must resort . The past begins to open only to the student who explores many sources and sees things from many sides . The world xii Introduction .
... of history and biography are oftenest the ones to which students of literature must resort . The past begins to open only to the student who explores many sources and sees things from many sides . The world xii Introduction .
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... sides . The world being full of books , it is pedagogic high treason to act as if the text - book contained the whole canon of knowledge . In culling the Addisonian specimens included in this volume I have had distinctly in view a ...
... sides . The world being full of books , it is pedagogic high treason to act as if the text - book contained the whole canon of knowledge . In culling the Addisonian specimens included in this volume I have had distinctly in view a ...
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... never espoused any party with violence , and am resolved to observe an exact neutrality between the Whigs and Tories , unless I shall be forced to declare myself by the hostilities of either side . In The Spectator Introduces Himself . 3.
... never espoused any party with violence , and am resolved to observe an exact neutrality between the Whigs and Tories , unless I shall be forced to declare myself by the hostilities of either side . In The Spectator Introduces Himself . 3.
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... side . In short , I have acted in all the parts of my life as a looker - on , which is the character I intend to preserve in this paper . I have given the reader just so much of my history and character , as to let him see I am not ...
... side . In short , I have acted in all the parts of my life as a looker - on , which is the character I intend to preserve in this paper . I have given the reader just so much of my history and character , as to let him see I am not ...
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