The Torch: Eight Lectures on Race Power in Literature Delivered Before the Lowell Institute of Boston MCMIII |
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Spenser states his purpose in the preface : “ The general end , ” he says , “ of all the Book is to fashion a gentleman , or noble person , in vertuous and gentle discipline . ” It is the very problem before each of us in education ...
Spenser states his purpose in the preface : “ The general end , ” he says , “ of all the Book is to fashion a gentleman , or noble person , in vertuous and gentle discipline . ” It is the very problem before each of us in education ...
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| Title | The Torch: Eight Lectures on Race Power in Literature Delivered Before the Lowell Institute of Boston MCMIII |
| Author | George Edward Woodberry |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1905 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 8 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 215 pages |
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