The Literary Essay in EnglishGinn, 1923 - 260 pages |
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... of soul - for the true essayist is graduated from the school of experience . In this school he has learned in fuller measure the truth that makes men free , with the freedom of spiritual rebirth . I CHAPTER INTRODUCTION.
... of soul - for the true essayist is graduated from the school of experience . In this school he has learned in fuller measure the truth that makes men free , with the freedom of spiritual rebirth . I CHAPTER INTRODUCTION.
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... truth , words should be as the lens through which the reader sees into the mind of the writer . The first business of language is simply to be transparent . Style , being personal , partakes of all the influences that have gone into the ...
... truth , words should be as the lens through which the reader sees into the mind of the writer . The first business of language is simply to be transparent . Style , being personal , partakes of all the influences that have gone into the ...
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... truth the garment of thought . There lingers about his essays an antique charm , an old - world sweetness , a picturesque beauty . Montaigne's very inconsistencies , -for he com- bined the principles of the Stoic with the practices of ...
... truth the garment of thought . There lingers about his essays an antique charm , an old - world sweetness , a picturesque beauty . Montaigne's very inconsistencies , -for he com- bined the principles of the Stoic with the practices of ...
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... truth , and force of his own observations on books and men . He was , in the truest sense , a man of original mind , that is , he had the power of looking at things for himself , or as they really were , instead of blindly trusting to ...
... truth , and force of his own observations on books and men . He was , in the truest sense , a man of original mind , that is , he had the power of looking at things for himself , or as they really were , instead of blindly trusting to ...
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... truths whether closely related or not , is biographical and critical in his subject matter . It would be tedious here to run down the line- Thoreau , Lowell , Holmes , Howells , Repplier , and Hune- ker are some of them - till we come ...
... truths whether closely related or not , is biographical and critical in his subject matter . It would be tedious here to run down the line- Thoreau , Lowell , Holmes , Howells , Repplier , and Hune- ker are some of them - till we come ...
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