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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... social condition and the Constitution of the Americans are democratic , " De Tocqueville ob- served about a hundred years ago . " But they have not had a democratic revolution . " This fact is surely one of the most important of our ...
... social condition and the Constitution of the Americans are democratic , " De Tocqueville ob- served about a hundred years ago . " But they have not had a democratic revolution . " This fact is surely one of the most important of our ...
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... social authority . When government ventures over this line , it collides with the duty and right of resistance . Its authority becomes arbitrary and therefore nil ; its act incurs the ultimate anathema , " unconstitutional . " One ...
... social authority . When government ventures over this line , it collides with the duty and right of resistance . Its authority becomes arbitrary and therefore nil ; its act incurs the ultimate anathema , " unconstitutional . " One ...
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... social organization as it is in his approach to science and invention . Like physical things , institutions were subject to critical scrutiny , test- ing , alteration . They were to be judged , like conduct , on the basis of their ...
... social organization as it is in his approach to science and invention . Like physical things , institutions were subject to critical scrutiny , test- ing , alteration . They were to be judged , like conduct , on the basis of their ...
Contents
The Intellectual Background | 1 |
Benjamin Franklin 17061790 | 99 |
Patrick Henry 17361799 | 191 |
Copyright | |
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