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... Intellectually , Hardy was very much an advanced man of his time . That he was a pessimist seems to me to need no ... intellectual assent . Yet while intellectually he was ' advanced ' , emotionally he was a traditionalist . He wrote ...
... Intellectually , Hardy was very much an advanced man of his time . That he was a pessimist seems to me to need no ... intellectual assent . Yet while intellectually he was ' advanced ' , emotionally he was a traditionalist . He wrote ...
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... intellectual doubt and finds himself unable to meet the criticisms of his beliefs made by an agnostic working man ; and then , leaving the Independents for the Unitarians , he has a short spell as Unitarian minister before leaving the ...
... intellectual doubt and finds himself unable to meet the criticisms of his beliefs made by an agnostic working man ; and then , leaving the Independents for the Unitarians , he has a short spell as Unitarian minister before leaving the ...
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... intellectual dissimulation - and of his intellectual distinction we are never in the least doubt - Gissing approaches the intensity and power of the Russian novelists he admired . It was for women Gissing reserved his fullest sympathy ...
... intellectual dissimulation - and of his intellectual distinction we are never in the least doubt - Gissing approaches the intensity and power of the Russian novelists he admired . It was for women Gissing reserved his fullest sympathy ...
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
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