Critical Miscellanies: Second SeriesChapman and Hall, 1877 - 401 páginas |
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... better worth discussing than any other which his book raises . The rest is a very elaborate and thorough description of the structure of society , of its physiognomy in manners and cha- racteristics , the privileges , the burdens , the ...
... better worth discussing than any other which his book raises . The rest is a very elaborate and thorough description of the structure of society , of its physiognomy in manners and cha- racteristics , the privileges , the burdens , the ...
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... better ; but the reader can scarcely help contrasting M. Taine's overcrowded pages with the perfect assimilation , the pithy fulness , the pregnant meditation , of De Tocqueville's book on the same subject . When we attempt to reduce M ...
... better ; but the reader can scarcely help contrasting M. Taine's overcrowded pages with the perfect assimilation , the pithy fulness , the pregnant meditation , of De Tocqueville's book on the same subject . When we attempt to reduce M ...
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... better , for it goes beneath the surface of literary expression , important as that is , down to the methods of reasoning . It leads us to the root of the matter , to the deductive habits of the French thinkers . The mischief of the ...
... better , for it goes beneath the surface of literary expression , important as that is , down to the methods of reasoning . It leads us to the root of the matter , to the deductive habits of the French thinkers . The mischief of the ...
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... better than M. Taine has done in the following passage : — At certain critical moments in history , ' he says , ' men have come out from the narrow and confined track of their daily life , and seized in one wide vision the infinite ...
... better than M. Taine has done in the following passage : — At certain critical moments in history , ' he says , ' men have come out from the narrow and confined track of their daily life , and seized in one wide vision the infinite ...
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... better process , could have extricated France on more tranquil terms from her des- perate case . The American colonists , in spite of the over - wide formulæ of their Declaration , really never broke with their past in any of its ...
... better process , could have extricated France on more tranquil terms from her des- perate case . The American colonists , in spite of the over - wide formulæ of their Declaration , really never broke with their past in any of its ...
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