The English Essay and EssayistJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1934 - 343 pages |
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... importance to them lies in the fact that he supplied that which enabled them to copy the model set by Theophrastus- a pattern of a style concise , pointed and sententious . Lastly , it must be noticed that if ever we are entitled to ...
... importance to them lies in the fact that he supplied that which enabled them to copy the model set by Theophrastus- a pattern of a style concise , pointed and sententious . Lastly , it must be noticed that if ever we are entitled to ...
Page 274
... importance , but not in itself . The one threw light upon Johnson , and through him on the spiritual condition - the inner reality of England in the eighteenth century . The other fact threw light upon the tremendous convulsion the ...
... importance , but not in itself . The one threw light upon Johnson , and through him on the spiritual condition - the inner reality of England in the eighteenth century . The other fact threw light upon the tremendous convulsion the ...
Page 309
... importance by lapse of time , though the objection which was taken against them by professional theologians has less weight than the objectors imagined . It is true that Arnold was no Hebraist ; but then , for the work attempted in St ...
... importance by lapse of time , though the objection which was taken against them by professional theologians has less weight than the objectors imagined . It is true that Arnold was no Hebraist ; but then , for the work attempted in St ...
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