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... Ledyard's shows that it is necessary , when thus using evidence of reading habits and literary influence to diagnose the emotional hygiene of a society , to allow for special circumstances . For habits of ' emotional self - indulgence ...
... Ledyard's shows that it is necessary , when thus using evidence of reading habits and literary influence to diagnose the emotional hygiene of a society , to allow for special circumstances . For habits of ' emotional self - indulgence ...
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... Ledyard is at pains to clear any taint of it from himself . Indeed it may be argued very plausibly that Ledyard's admiration of Cook emerges vividly and consistently . For instance , far more than Rickman or any other of the chroniclers ...
... Ledyard is at pains to clear any taint of it from himself . Indeed it may be argued very plausibly that Ledyard's admiration of Cook emerges vividly and consistently . For instance , far more than Rickman or any other of the chroniclers ...
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... Ledyard employs a more audacious and distinctive Sternean device when ( p.192 ) , having commented intelligently on Siberian shamanism and its affinities with priestcraft in ... Ledyard's desper- John Ledyard : the American Traveller 209.
... Ledyard employs a more audacious and distinctive Sternean device when ( p.192 ) , having commented intelligently on Siberian shamanism and its affinities with priestcraft in ... Ledyard's desper- John Ledyard : the American Traveller 209.
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Chaucer and One Idea of Englishness 1972 | 7 |
A Reading of The Oceans Love to Cynthia 1960 | 13 |
Shakespeare and the Practising Poet Today 1976 | 31 |
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