A Guide to English Literature, Volume 3Cassell, 1964 |
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... authority of earlier writers , on deduction from traditional theory , or on the ingenious working out of analogies , rather than on observation and experiment . The road to learning was still the traditional one of grammar , rhetoric ...
... authority of earlier writers , on deduction from traditional theory , or on the ingenious working out of analogies , rather than on observation and experiment . The road to learning was still the traditional one of grammar , rhetoric ...
Page 114
... authority . In Pseudodoxia Epidemica ( 1646 ) he reveals , among a mass of medieval superstition , an occasional approximation to the Baconian ' spirit of enquiry ' . There is little of this in Donne . In spite of his vivid interest in ...
... authority . In Pseudodoxia Epidemica ( 1646 ) he reveals , among a mass of medieval superstition , an occasional approximation to the Baconian ' spirit of enquiry ' . There is little of this in Donne . In spite of his vivid interest in ...
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... authority , he thought , must , in a stable society , rest entirely in the hands of those who own the land . To distribute authority more widely he would therefore abolish primo- geniture and fix a limit of £ 2,000 to the annual value ...
... authority , he thought , must , in a stable society , rest entirely in the hands of those who own the land . To distribute authority more widely he would therefore abolish primo- geniture and fix a limit of £ 2,000 to the annual value ...
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