The Cambridge History of English Literature, Volume 14Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller G.P. Putnam's sons, 1917 - English literature |
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... literary output . His History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century ( 1876 ) places the philosophers and moralists in their due position in the whole literary activity of the period , and is penetrating and usually just in its ...
... literary output . His History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century ( 1876 ) places the philosophers and moralists in their due position in the whole literary activity of the period , and is penetrating and usually just in its ...
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... literary career illustrates the value of the attempts made in these academies to supply instruction in modern subjects . Cf. the syllabus of courses in history and geo- graphy by Priestley at Warrington ( where he worked from 1761 to ...
... literary career illustrates the value of the attempts made in these academies to supply instruction in modern subjects . Cf. the syllabus of courses in history and geo- graphy by Priestley at Warrington ( where he worked from 1761 to ...
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... literary centre , in which he was periodically visited by Brougham and other leaders of the northern circuit , and whence he exercised an influence over the conduct of catholic affairs , which neither Milner's intrigues nor the frank ...
... literary centre , in which he was periodically visited by Brougham and other leaders of the northern circuit , and whence he exercised an influence over the conduct of catholic affairs , which neither Milner's intrigues nor the frank ...
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... literary study and become familiar with most of the homes of European civilisation , since its new birth in the land which he had probably loved next to his own , and which , in his later years , had been specially endeared to him by ...
... literary study and become familiar with most of the homes of European civilisation , since its new birth in the land which he had probably loved next to his own , and which , in his later years , had been specially endeared to him by ...
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... literary as well as in po- litical work ; to a forensic career , he was not drawn , not with- standing his oratorical gifts , his marvellous power of memory and what has been well described as his extraordinary sense of the concrete ...
... literary as well as in po- litical work ; to a forensic career , he was not drawn , not with- standing his oratorical gifts , his marvellous power of memory and what has been well described as his extraordinary sense of the concrete ...
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