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... describe that background . When it was finished , I found that it applied to Shakespeare's Histories no more than to the rest of Shakespeare or indeed than to Elizabethan literature generally . I also found that the order I was describing ...
... describe that background . When it was finished , I found that it applied to Shakespeare's Histories no more than to the rest of Shakespeare or indeed than to Elizabethan literature generally . I also found that the order I was describing ...
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... describes is Elyot's and Shake- , speare's . His name for it is law , law in its general sense . Above all cosmic or ... describe the subordinate and separate laws ; for law too must become multiple when it is applied to an abundantly ...
... describes is Elyot's and Shake- , speare's . His name for it is law , law in its general sense . Above all cosmic or ... describe the subordinate and separate laws ; for law too must become multiple when it is applied to an abundantly ...
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... describe the Elizabethan scheme of In creation from top to bottom . But first we must shed any notion that even in the Middle Ages the chain or ladder of creation was single and consistent . Some portions of it plainly could not be ...
... describe the Elizabethan scheme of In creation from top to bottom . But first we must shed any notion that even in the Middle Ages the chain or ladder of creation was single and consistent . Some portions of it plainly could not be ...
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