The Cambridge History of English Literature, Volume 14Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller G.P. Putnam's sons, 1916 - English literature |
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... successful work as editor of Mind during the first sixteen years of its existence . Mind was the first English journal devoted to psychology and philosophy , and its origin in 1876 is a landmark in the history of British philosophy . In ...
... successful work as editor of Mind during the first sixteen years of its existence . Mind was the first English journal devoted to psychology and philosophy , and its origin in 1876 is a landmark in the history of British philosophy . In ...
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... success . Indeed , at the end , the author is fain to admit that evolution had not helped him to the extent he had anticipated . In his ethical , and still more in his political , writings we see the supreme value set by Spencer on the ...
... success . Indeed , at the end , the author is fain to admit that evolution had not helped him to the extent he had anticipated . In his ethical , and still more in his political , writings we see the supreme value set by Spencer on the ...
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... success of the work was such as to encourage him to produce , in steady sequence , a continuation from the Norman conquest to 1500 , and a further continuation , covering the reign of Henry VIII , with a ' political history of the ...
... success of the work was such as to encourage him to produce , in steady sequence , a continuation from the Norman conquest to 1500 , and a further continuation , covering the reign of Henry VIII , with a ' political history of the ...
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... success . It is not too much to say that this was mainly due to the use made by the writer of his study of original ... successful in convicting of unfounded statements ; it was not his way to take anything in his predecessors for ...
... success . It is not too much to say that this was mainly due to the use made by the writer of his study of original ... successful in convicting of unfounded statements ; it was not his way to take anything in his predecessors for ...
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... successful ; that on Frederick the great had little value before Carlyle , and less afterwards ; while the subject of Ranke's Popes made too great demands upon Macaulay's powers as a philosophical historian . Finally , while , of the ...
... successful ; that on Frederick the great had little value before Carlyle , and less afterwards ; while the subject of Ranke's Popes made too great demands upon Macaulay's powers as a philosophical historian . Finally , while , of the ...
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