The English Essay and EssayistJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1934 - 343 pages |
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... literary form ; the historical essay is an incomplete history , the philosophical essay might expand into a treatise . But besides essays in this looser sense there are essays more strictly so called in which we do detect a special literary ...
... literary form ; the historical essay is an incomplete history , the philosophical essay might expand into a treatise . But besides essays in this looser sense there are essays more strictly so called in which we do detect a special literary ...
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... literary style , there can be little doubt that his choice of philosophy was fortunate . If he had devoted himself exclusively to pure literature , he would certainly have been far less original than he was in philosophy , and no ...
... literary style , there can be little doubt that his choice of philosophy was fortunate . If he had devoted himself exclusively to pure literature , he would certainly have been far less original than he was in philosophy , and no ...
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... literary gifts , and his own contributions , even if they stood alone , would entitle The Witness to a place in literary history . In its columns appeared both The Old Red Sandstone and My Schools and Schoolmasters , the works by which ...
... literary gifts , and his own contributions , even if they stood alone , would entitle The Witness to a place in literary history . In its columns appeared both The Old Red Sandstone and My Schools and Schoolmasters , the works by which ...
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