The English Essay and EssayistJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1934 - 343 pages |
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... Browne's harvest , answers to queries addressed to him by his friends , odd papers which he had not been able to ... Browne of the place which would otherwise be his among the greatest writers . The famous passage beginning " But the ...
... Browne's harvest , answers to queries addressed to him by his friends , odd papers which he had not been able to ... Browne of the place which would otherwise be his among the greatest writers . The famous passage beginning " But the ...
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... Browne as a philosopher and a man of science , the value of his best work remains exactly the same . Reasoning ... Browne's appeal is to the emotions rather than to the reason . Not what he asserts , but what he suggests , is important ...
... Browne as a philosopher and a man of science , the value of his best work remains exactly the same . Reasoning ... Browne's appeal is to the emotions rather than to the reason . Not what he asserts , but what he suggests , is important ...
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Hugh Walker. Browne's style as " a tissue of many languages ; " and John- son himself is said by Boswell to have based his style on Browne . But Johnson's Latinisms were moderate compared with Browne's . Words like ergotism , volutation ...
Hugh Walker. Browne's style as " a tissue of many languages ; " and John- son himself is said by Boswell to have based his style on Browne . But Johnson's Latinisms were moderate compared with Browne's . Words like ergotism , volutation ...
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