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A Short Critical History Walter Ernest Allen. society . He writes like a man born with a skin too few , and affronted in all his senses by life as he has experienced it ; and he flings back at society , with all the contempt and ...
A Short Critical History Walter Ernest Allen. society . He writes like a man born with a skin too few , and affronted in all his senses by life as he has experienced it ; and he flings back at society , with all the contempt and ...
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... society ; abuses of power were deviations from an accepted norm and could be corrected by an appeal to reason through the voice of ridicule . But society was not static as Fielding and Smollett believed , and the middle of the century ...
... society ; abuses of power were deviations from an accepted norm and could be corrected by an appeal to reason through the voice of ridicule . But society was not static as Fielding and Smollett believed , and the middle of the century ...
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... society . Yet they add greatly to the depth of his rendering of the social scene , for , among other things , they hint at the instability underlying the surface of society . They point too to another quality of Trollope's , the ...
... society . Yet they add greatly to the depth of his rendering of the social scene , for , among other things , they hint at the instability underlying the surface of society . They point too to another quality of Trollope's , the ...
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