A History of English LiteratureHardin Craig Oxford University Press, 1950 - 697 pages |
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... nature was a static thing , which could not be manipulated into change . It could only be described and classified ; whereas Bacon proposed to change nature in man's behalf , to adjust nature to man's needs , and thus restore man to a ...
... nature was a static thing , which could not be manipulated into change . It could only be described and classified ; whereas Bacon proposed to change nature in man's behalf , to adjust nature to man's needs , and thus restore man to a ...
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... Nature . ' Obviously , they could not be referring to the nature that Sir Isaac Newton had recently interpreted in terms of mathematical physics , in his Principia Mathematica ( 1687 ) ; they could hardly have gone to physics for a ...
... Nature . ' Obviously , they could not be referring to the nature that Sir Isaac Newton had recently interpreted in terms of mathematical physics , in his Principia Mathematica ( 1687 ) ; they could hardly have gone to physics for a ...
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... Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections ( 1728 ) , further developed Shaftesbury's theory of the ' moral sense ' as the organ of both esthetic and moral ... NATURE POETRY : THOMSON 401 Sensibility in Nature Poetry: Thomson,
... Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections ( 1728 ) , further developed Shaftesbury's theory of the ' moral sense ' as the organ of both esthetic and moral ... NATURE POETRY : THOMSON 401 Sensibility in Nature Poetry: Thomson,
Contents
THE LITERATURE OF THE OLD ENGLISH PERIOD 1 The Temper of the Middle Ages | 3 |
The AngloSaxons | 5 |
Some Fundamental Facts Relating to Old English Literature | 8 |
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