Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 2J.B. Lippincott Company, 1910 - American literature |
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... became by degrees the unwritten code of the times . Working prosaically , its chief gifts were in prose . It gave us the first daily Newspaper ; and , by the pen of Defoe and his humbler allies , an extraordinary and unprecedented ...
... became by degrees the unwritten code of the times . Working prosaically , its chief gifts were in prose . It gave us the first daily Newspaper ; and , by the pen of Defoe and his humbler allies , an extraordinary and unprecedented ...
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... became for Englishmen the standard work on the subject until the days of David . Hume . The result of these changed condi- tions was doubtless to leave our literature more to its own native and insular develop- ment , to throw poets ...
... became for Englishmen the standard work on the subject until the days of David . Hume . The result of these changed condi- tions was doubtless to leave our literature more to its own native and insular develop- ment , to throw poets ...
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... became lecturer on Greek and on rhetoric . He soon became disgusted with the verbal subtleties of the Aristotelian and scholastic philosophy ; and experiments in medicine show his bent towards the inductive interpretation of nature . In ...
... became lecturer on Greek and on rhetoric . He soon became disgusted with the verbal subtleties of the Aristotelian and scholastic philosophy ; and experiments in medicine show his bent towards the inductive interpretation of nature . In ...
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... became a promi- nent defender of civil and religious liberty , in a succession of works which exerted a powerful in- fluence . While in Holland he had written in Latin an expansion of an essay ( dating from 1667 ) on toleration ; this ...
... became a promi- nent defender of civil and religious liberty , in a succession of works which exerted a powerful in- fluence . While in Holland he had written in Latin an expansion of an essay ( dating from 1667 ) on toleration ; this ...
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... became a Junior Fellow in 1667 , and M.A. in 1668. In 1669 he succeeded Barrow as mathe- matical professor ; in 1671 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society , and communicated to it his new theory of Light . He served repeatedly in ...
... became a Junior Fellow in 1667 , and M.A. in 1668. In 1669 he succeeded Barrow as mathe- matical professor ; in 1671 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society , and communicated to it his new theory of Light . He served repeatedly in ...
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