Literary Criticism of Seventeenth-century EnglandEdward W. Tayler |
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... sense and loses that much of its immediacy to reality . In the Baconians , in the Hobbes of the mid - century , and finally in popular usage the restricted sense becomes increas- ingly dominant , so that when Wit is used precisely it ...
... sense and loses that much of its immediacy to reality . In the Baconians , in the Hobbes of the mid - century , and finally in popular usage the restricted sense becomes increas- ingly dominant , so that when Wit is used precisely it ...
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... sense , are as the body , and the soule . The sense is as the life and soule of Language , without which all words are dead . Sense is wrought out of experience , the knowledge of humane life , and actions , or of the liberall Arts ...
... sense , are as the body , and the soule . The sense is as the life and soule of Language , without which all words are dead . Sense is wrought out of experience , the knowledge of humane life , and actions , or of the liberall Arts ...
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... sense of their force , then our Flesh is sensible of the bones that sustain it . As the sense we have of bodies , consisteth in change and variety of im- pression , so also do's the sense of language in the variety and changeable use of ...
... sense of their force , then our Flesh is sensible of the bones that sustain it . As the sense we have of bodies , consisteth in change and variety of im- pression , so also do's the sense of language in the variety and changeable use of ...
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