Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800James E. Person Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately 4-8 of the greatest writers and thinkers of the late Middle Ages, Renaissance and Restoration periods by providing full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals. Among those profiled in this volume are:
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... Perhaps the dissolution , long since begun , may one day be consummated . Perhaps one day the noble many - storeyed mansion of democracy will be dismantled , levelled to the dimensions of a flat majoritarianism , which is no mansion but ...
... Perhaps the dissolution , long since begun , may one day be consummated . Perhaps one day the noble many - storeyed mansion of democracy will be dismantled , levelled to the dimensions of a flat majoritarianism , which is no mansion but ...
Page 142
... perhaps a Glass of Limewater drank at Din- ner , may have the same Effect on the Air pro- duc'd in and issuing from our Bowels ? This is Worth the experiment . . . For the Encouragement of this Enquiry , ( from the immortal Honour to be ...
... perhaps a Glass of Limewater drank at Din- ner , may have the same Effect on the Air pro- duc'd in and issuing from our Bowels ? This is Worth the experiment . . . For the Encouragement of this Enquiry , ( from the immortal Honour to be ...
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... perhaps one day Christians might come to agree more than , as now , they differ . The point here is not that Franklin could be zealous in his denunciation of zeal : to wax enthusiastic oc- casionally is as human as to practice ...
... perhaps one day Christians might come to agree more than , as now , they differ . The point here is not that Franklin could be zealous in his denunciation of zeal : to wax enthusiastic oc- casionally is as human as to practice ...
Contents
The Intellectual Background | 1 |
Benjamin Franklin 17061790 | 99 |
Patrick Henry 17361799 | 191 |
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