The Literary Essay in EnglishGinn, 1923 - 260 pages |
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... less necessity , a persevering persecution of the students through all the youthful years of their minority . Happily there is in the nature of the subject at least no reason whatever why the class in literature should not be a real ...
... less necessity , a persevering persecution of the students through all the youthful years of their minority . Happily there is in the nature of the subject at least no reason whatever why the class in literature should not be a real ...
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... less intimately and inseparably united to its matter than is the invisible soul to the body of the living man . Applying to this fact , however , a bit of Chestertonian reasoning , we shall maintain that the invisible soul of man is ...
... less intimately and inseparably united to its matter than is the invisible soul to the body of the living man . Applying to this fact , however , a bit of Chestertonian reasoning , we shall maintain that the invisible soul of man is ...
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... less self - expression because it is trained and reasoned . There is little danger of overemphasizing the necessity for perfect mastery of the science and art of grammar and rhetoric by those who wish to write well , granting even that ...
... less self - expression because it is trained and reasoned . There is little danger of overemphasizing the necessity for perfect mastery of the science and art of grammar and rhetoric by those who wish to write well , granting even that ...
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... less subjective than poetry in the later and lyric stage . Most objective essays are scientific and didactic . The purely scientific treatise , which concerns itself solely with the exposition of scientific theory , is not literary and ...
... less subjective than poetry in the later and lyric stage . Most objective essays are scientific and didactic . The purely scientific treatise , which concerns itself solely with the exposition of scientific theory , is not literary and ...
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... less than essays . The Bible , especially in Proverbs , Ecclesiastes , and Wis- dom , has essays on poverty , riches , and friendship which forecast the modern species . The germ of the written essay first appeared in the interpolated ...
... less than essays . The Bible , especially in Proverbs , Ecclesiastes , and Wis- dom , has essays on poverty , riches , and friendship which forecast the modern species . The germ of the written essay first appeared in the interpolated ...
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