The History of English Literature: With an Outline of the Origin and Growth of the English LanguageD.Appleton & Company, 1862 - 413 páginas |
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... interesting or attractive to them . I am at least confident that the book does not contain any thing that is beyond their comprehension , either in its manner of describing facts , or in its criticisms of works , or in its incidental ...
... interesting or attractive to them . I am at least confident that the book does not contain any thing that is beyond their comprehension , either in its manner of describing facts , or in its criticisms of works , or in its incidental ...
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... interesting more than one of those groups . It was another characteristic fact , that only among the books of the clergy was there to be found any thing like systematic thinking or solid information . The state of the languages has next ...
... interesting more than one of those groups . It was another characteristic fact , that only among the books of the clergy was there to be found any thing like systematic thinking or solid information . The state of the languages has next ...
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... interesting in themselves , the pheno- mena will gain redoubled radiance from the light which is thrown on them from the world without . Then , for instance , if we begin to contemplate the history of Modern Times , the blaze of ...
... interesting in themselves , the pheno- mena will gain redoubled radiance from the light which is thrown on them from the world without . Then , for instance , if we begin to contemplate the history of Modern Times , the blaze of ...
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... interesting thought , that , when the history of the world is contemplated as a whole , the progress of literary cul- ture is found to keep pace with the progress of the nations of the earth towards that mighty renovation of man's ...
... interesting thought , that , when the history of the world is contemplated as a whole , the progress of literary cul- ture is found to keep pace with the progress of the nations of the earth towards that mighty renovation of man's ...
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... interesting for its history of letters in England , is Hallam's stand- ard work , the " Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth , Sixteenth , and Seventeenth Centuries , " first published in 1839 , and now in 3 volumes ...
... interesting for its history of letters in England , is Hallam's stand- ard work , the " Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth , Sixteenth , and Seventeenth Centuries , " first published in 1839 , and now in 3 volumes ...
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