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Page 168
... fact a profoundly derivative one , though this does not , of course , reduce his merit for his own time . He came first under the influence of Godwin ; his first novel , published in 1827 , was significantly called Falkland . Pelham ...
... fact a profoundly derivative one , though this does not , of course , reduce his merit for his own time . He came first under the influence of Godwin ; his first novel , published in 1827 , was significantly called Falkland . Pelham ...
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... fact , and from the related fact that , formally , he was a man of little education writing for a public often more poorly educated than himself . The public he wrote for was largely a new public brought to consciousness by the ...
... fact , and from the related fact that , formally , he was a man of little education writing for a public often more poorly educated than himself . The public he wrote for was largely a new public brought to consciousness by the ...
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... fact in order to shock her listeners into recognition of it . The fact is this : that though human nature may not change , men's notions of their nature do , and one such change occurred roughly during the first decade of the twentieth ...
... fact in order to shock her listeners into recognition of it . The fact is this : that though human nature may not change , men's notions of their nature do , and one such change occurred roughly during the first decade of the twentieth ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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