The Hundred Best English EssaysFrederick Edwin Smith Earl of Birkenhead Cassell, 1931 - 921 Seiten |
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... essays as mere “ heads of discourse " -concentrated notes from which longer and more elaborated treatises were to be derived . Of course Bacon did not intend anything of the kind . The most practical as well as the most worldly - wise ...
... essays as mere “ heads of discourse " -concentrated notes from which longer and more elaborated treatises were to be derived . Of course Bacon did not intend anything of the kind . The most practical as well as the most worldly - wise ...
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... essays here , interspersed with the more charming if less valuable fabrications of those artists who were content with the essay per se and gloried in its limitations . The title of " Essay " early changed its significance . Soon after ...
... essays here , interspersed with the more charming if less valuable fabrications of those artists who were content with the essay per se and gloried in its limitations . The title of " Essay " early changed its significance . Soon after ...
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... essays . He can shelter himself behind the argument that many of the most polished English essays , in the true meaning of the term , first appeared in periodicals . He can quote Steele , Johnson and Coleridge in his support ; and ...
... essays . He can shelter himself behind the argument that many of the most polished English essays , in the true meaning of the term , first appeared in periodicals . He can quote Steele , Johnson and Coleridge in his support ; and ...
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Decay of the Yeomanry | 1 |
FRANCIS BACON Baron Verulam VISCOUNT ST ALBANS 15611626 | 17 |
BEN JONSON 15731637 | 23 |
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