A History of English LiteratureHardin Craig Oxford University Press, 1950 - 697 pages |
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... Philosophy is one of the most important works in early European literature and , next to the body of Catholic doctrine and dogma , the most important philosophical influence felt in the Middle Ages . Its author was a member of an ...
... Philosophy is one of the most important works in early European literature and , next to the body of Catholic doctrine and dogma , the most important philosophical influence felt in the Middle Ages . Its author was a member of an ...
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... philosophy of man and society that should be as certain and demonstrable as geometry . He frankly adopted a materialistic , and even mechanistic , conception of human nature . Consequently he denied the existence of any but selfish ...
... philosophy of man and society that should be as certain and demonstrable as geometry . He frankly adopted a materialistic , and even mechanistic , conception of human nature . Consequently he denied the existence of any but selfish ...
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... PHILOSOPHY Among the most considerable of early nineteenth - century British philosophers were William Whewell ( 1794-1866 ) and Sir William Hamilton ( 1788- 1856 ) , in whom the traditional common - sense rationalism of Scottish philosophy ...
... PHILOSOPHY Among the most considerable of early nineteenth - century British philosophers were William Whewell ( 1794-1866 ) and Sir William Hamilton ( 1788- 1856 ) , in whom the traditional common - sense rationalism of Scottish philosophy ...
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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