Nature and the Cosmos: Essays in the History of Ideas |
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... historians contributed little if anything that was new to the writing of history although we find that the emergence of a universal Roman Empire led an historian like Polybius or a poet like Virgil to think of Roman history as ...
... historians contributed little if anything that was new to the writing of history although we find that the emergence of a universal Roman Empire led an historian like Polybius or a poet like Virgil to think of Roman history as ...
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... historians of the Renaissance initiated a return to the classical models of historical writing and revived classical models remained the type of historical writing well into the eighteenth century . Thus , neither the Romans nor the ...
... historians of the Renaissance initiated a return to the classical models of historical writing and revived classical models remained the type of historical writing well into the eighteenth century . Thus , neither the Romans nor the ...
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... historian not simply acts of erudition or of moral judgment but acts of imaginative identification and re - creation ... historians introduced regulative philosophical ideas and developmental patterns into the writing of history , and ...
... historian not simply acts of erudition or of moral judgment but acts of imaginative identification and re - creation ... historians introduced regulative philosophical ideas and developmental patterns into the writing of history , and ...
Contents
The History of Ideas and the Study of Literature | 1 |
The Unnaturalness of Metaphysical Poetry | 18 |
The Theme of Cosmic Order | 59 |
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