A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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... mind ; and the transitions from one period to another show themselves as governed by a law of rhythmic change , the sway of which extends to most moral happenings . From this point of view , it has proved possible to regard two ...
... mind ; and the transitions from one period to another show themselves as governed by a law of rhythmic change , the sway of which extends to most moral happenings . From this point of view , it has proved possible to regard two ...
Page 764
... mind , an ironic lesson of the moralist aimed at the vanities of mankind , a psychological and medical atten- tion to what links up soul and body , or again the lucid , voluntary pessimism of a mind that is resolutely and coolly ...
... mind , an ironic lesson of the moralist aimed at the vanities of mankind , a psychological and medical atten- tion to what links up soul and body , or again the lucid , voluntary pessimism of a mind that is resolutely and coolly ...
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... mind over matter , and the mental energy whereby mind can control itself . Since the sixteenth century science has been a growing , rival force beside religion and the arts ; during the eighteenth , it ceased to be the privilege of an ...
... mind over matter , and the mental energy whereby mind can control itself . Since the sixteenth century science has been a growing , rival force beside religion and the arts ; during the eighteenth , it ceased to be the privilege of an ...
Contents
ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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