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... sense , literature may be re- garded as including the aggregate body of printed matter in the world . It is thus a record of the acts , thoughts , and emotions of the human family . Its magnitude ren- ders it absolutely impossible for ...
... sense , literature may be re- garded as including the aggregate body of printed matter in the world . It is thus a record of the acts , thoughts , and emotions of the human family . Its magnitude ren- ders it absolutely impossible for ...
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... sense , literature includes only those works that are polished or artistic in form . The classic works of a literature are those which present ideas of general and permanent in- terest in a highly finished or artistic manner ...
... sense , literature includes only those works that are polished or artistic in form . The classic works of a literature are those which present ideas of general and permanent in- terest in a highly finished or artistic manner ...
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... sense . " There was no printing - press in Virginia before 1681 ; and the printer was required to give bond not to print anything " until his Majesty's pleasure shall be known . " For nearly forty years of this period , from 1641 to ...
... sense . " There was no printing - press in Virginia before 1681 ; and the printer was required to give bond not to print anything " until his Majesty's pleasure shall be known . " For nearly forty years of this period , from 1641 to ...
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... sense to escape the disputatious habit which this practice is in danger of developing , and which wise people , he tells us , seldom fall into . He modelled his style after Addi- son's Spectator , which was then a novelty in the ...
... sense to escape the disputatious habit which this practice is in danger of developing , and which wise people , he tells us , seldom fall into . He modelled his style after Addi- son's Spectator , which was then a novelty in the ...
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... parts and abilities , a vicious man could not properly be called a man of sense . " In 1732 he began the publication of an Almanac under the name of Richard Saunders ; it was continued about twenty BENJAMIN FRANKLIN . 45.
... parts and abilities , a vicious man could not properly be called a man of sense . " In 1732 he began the publication of an Almanac under the name of Richard Saunders ; it was continued about twenty BENJAMIN FRANKLIN . 45.
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