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... experience ( Life , I , 471 ) . Again and again , whether speaking casually or writing for- mally , he asserts that we do not know anything except what we have learned from direct or vicar- ious experience.9 Even the poet is not in any ...
... experience ( Life , I , 471 ) . Again and again , whether speaking casually or writing for- mally , he asserts that we do not know anything except what we have learned from direct or vicar- ious experience.9 Even the poet is not in any ...
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... experience , has led the individual to a kind of intellectual disorder , which Henry calls a " riot " in the brain . 15 Surely the principal meaning that emerges from Catherine's experiences at Northanger Abbey is that her imagination ...
... experience , has led the individual to a kind of intellectual disorder , which Henry calls a " riot " in the brain . 15 Surely the principal meaning that emerges from Catherine's experiences at Northanger Abbey is that her imagination ...
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... experience the complexity of human character and behavior , Catherine , as well as the reader of Northanger Abbey , learns that real people are not usually murderers , but are more frequently mercenary , cunning , hypocritical and vain ...
... experience the complexity of human character and behavior , Catherine , as well as the reader of Northanger Abbey , learns that real people are not usually murderers , but are more frequently mercenary , cunning , hypocritical and vain ...
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Imagination in Northanger Abbey | 15 |
Hardship Recollection | 37 |
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