The English Essay and EssayistJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1934 - 343 pages |
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... popular customs , and about popular tenets cosmographical , geographical and historical . In short , if ever there was a book de omnibus rebus et quibusdam aliis , that book is the Pseudodoxia Epidemica . Real unity it has none ; each ...
... popular customs , and about popular tenets cosmographical , geographical and historical . In short , if ever there was a book de omnibus rebus et quibusdam aliis , that book is the Pseudodoxia Epidemica . Real unity it has none ; each ...
Page 75
... popular . The sale was so rapid that the first surreptitious edition seems to have been exhausted within a few ... popularity very extraordinary at that period . Nor was the popularity limited to England . Religio Medici was trans- lated ...
... popular . The sale was so rapid that the first surreptitious edition seems to have been exhausted within a few ... popularity very extraordinary at that period . Nor was the popularity limited to England . Religio Medici was trans- lated ...
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... popular notion of the mean- ing of " Johnsonese " is so far right . The adoption of such a style carried with it other consequences , because such stateli- ness of language was peculiarly unsuited to the light subjects which had ...
... popular notion of the mean- ing of " Johnsonese " is so far right . The adoption of such a style carried with it other consequences , because such stateli- ness of language was peculiarly unsuited to the light subjects which had ...
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