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... culture , as it has been magisterially retraced by Ernst Robert Curtius in European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages , characteristically tended to fall back upon the topoi , those great commonplaces of thought and expression which ...
... culture , as it has been magisterially retraced by Ernst Robert Curtius in European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages , characteristically tended to fall back upon the topoi , those great commonplaces of thought and expression which ...
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... culture harbors a longing of its own for a great good place , an island of the blest or happy valley , whose qualities are notable for their freedom from those ills to which that culture is ordinarily vulnerable . Consequently the ...
... culture harbors a longing of its own for a great good place , an island of the blest or happy valley , whose qualities are notable for their freedom from those ills to which that culture is ordinarily vulnerable . Consequently the ...
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... culture . " Though they did not get across the Atlantic , others did who were scarcely less visionary . Etienne Cabet , after having writ- ten his popular romance about an imaginary journey to Icaria , spon- sored a series of little ...
... culture . " Though they did not get across the Atlantic , others did who were scarcely less visionary . Etienne Cabet , after having writ- ten his popular romance about an imaginary journey to Icaria , spon- sored a series of little ...
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