A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John Mandeville to William Cowper : Consisting of Biographical Sketches of the Authors, Selections from Their Works, with Notes, Explanatory, Illustrative, and Directing to the Best Editions and to Various Criticisms : Designed as a Text-book for the Higher Classes in Schools and for Junior Classes in Colleges, as Well as for Private Reading |
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466 Moral Sentiments - - Benevolence , CaDeath , the good Man ' s Path to
Heaven lumny , Censure , Children , Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527
JAMES THOMSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468 Friendship , General Observations .
466 Moral Sentiments - - Benevolence , CaDeath , the good Man ' s Path to
Heaven lumny , Censure , Children , Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527
JAMES THOMSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468 Friendship , General Observations .
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His probity remains unimpeached , for the accuracy of what he relates from his
own personal observation has been confirmed by subsequent travellers . But
when he had to describe the locality of Paradise , he fairly acknowledges that he
...
His probity remains unimpeached , for the accuracy of what he relates from his
own personal observation has been confirmed by subsequent travellers . But
when he had to describe the locality of Paradise , he fairly acknowledges that he
...
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... been justly remarked , that it was no inferior combination of observation and
sympathy which could bring together into one company the many - colored
conditions and professions of society , delineated with pictorial force , and
dramatized by ...
... been justly remarked , that it was no inferior combination of observation and
sympathy which could bring together into one company the many - colored
conditions and professions of society , delineated with pictorial force , and
dramatized by ...
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He has much good sense , solid reflection , and useful observation ; but he is
serious and didactic on all occasions , preserving the tone of the scholar and the
moralist on the most lively topics . Hence he is characterized by Chaucer as the ...
He has much good sense , solid reflection , and useful observation ; but he is
serious and didactic on all occasions , preserving the tone of the scholar and the
moralist on the most lively topics . Hence he is characterized by Chaucer as the ...
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No one can read it attentively without profit , and without acknowledging it to be
full of those profound observations and shrewd insights into human nature ,
which show the author to be a man of singular wisdom , and far in advance of the
spirit ...
No one can read it attentively without profit , and without acknowledging it to be
full of those profound observations and shrewd insights into human nature ,
which show the author to be a man of singular wisdom , and far in advance of the
spirit ...
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| Title | A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John Mandeville to William Cowper : Consisting of Biographical Sketches of the Authors, Selections from Their Works, with Notes, Explanatory, Illustrative, and Directing to the Best Editions and to Various Criticisms ... |
| Author | Charles Dexter Cleveland |
| Publisher | E.C. and J. Biddle, 1852 |
| Length | 776 pages |
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