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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James E. Person. was thought to be fasting and prayer , the denial of the flesh , the renunciation of the natural man . " Who shall de- liver me from the body of this death ! " cried the saint . The physical and material world was thought ...
James E. Person. was thought to be fasting and prayer , the denial of the flesh , the renunciation of the natural man . " Who shall de- liver me from the body of this death ! " cried the saint . The physical and material world was thought ...
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... thought probably did not begin much before his first trip abroad as emissary to France in 1784 . When John Adams had gone , also to France , a few years earlier on his first foreign mission , he thought himself fresh from an “ American ...
... thought probably did not begin much before his first trip abroad as emissary to France in 1784 . When John Adams had gone , also to France , a few years earlier on his first foreign mission , he thought himself fresh from an “ American ...
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... thoughts is also evident . Brant's critique , however , misleads in two respects : One , it assumes that Henry tried to conceal , or did not wish to admit , the similarities of language and thought . The only evidence for such a ...
... thoughts is also evident . Brant's critique , however , misleads in two respects : One , it assumes that Henry tried to conceal , or did not wish to admit , the similarities of language and thought . The only evidence for such a ...
Contents
The Intellectual Background | 1 |
Benjamin Franklin 17061790 | 99 |
Patrick Henry 17361799 | 191 |
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