Older Masters: Essays and Reflections on English and American LiteratureDonald Davie's major essays on British and American writers from Chaucer to Browning. |
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... Law is following very closely the doctrines of the German mystic , Jacob Boehme . Now , Isaac Newton himself had read Boehme , and Law asserted most strenuously that it was from Boehme that Newton got the hint for formulating his laws ...
... Law is following very closely the doctrines of the German mystic , Jacob Boehme . Now , Isaac Newton himself had read Boehme , and Law asserted most strenuously that it was from Boehme that Newton got the hint for formulating his laws ...
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... laws , and yet those laws still remain sufficiently strong to govern the people . This is the most perfect state of civil liberty , of which we can form any idea ; here we see a greater number of laws than in any other country , while ...
... laws , and yet those laws still remain sufficiently strong to govern the people . This is the most perfect state of civil liberty , of which we can form any idea ; here we see a greater number of laws than in any other country , while ...
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... laws ' , since the very multiplicity of laws ensured that their severity would be customarily alleviated . What remains to be justified is Goldsmith's conviction that things could work out this way only under a monarchy . Readers of ...
... laws ' , since the very multiplicity of laws ensured that their severity would be customarily alleviated . What remains to be justified is Goldsmith's conviction that things could work out this way only under a monarchy . Readers of ...
Contents
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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