The Rhetorical World of Augustan Humanism: Ethics and Imagery from Swift to BurkeClarendon Press, 1965 - 314 pages |
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... figure in a sentence from The Rambler is aware of the heavy freight of the figurative in the expression of even the ... figure rather than assuming that , because the figure of , say , Justice with her scales is now a cliché , it always ...
... figure in a sentence from The Rambler is aware of the heavy freight of the figurative in the expression of even the ... figure rather than assuming that , because the figure of , say , Justice with her scales is now a cliché , it always ...
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... figure in a sentence from The Rambler is aware of the heavy freight of the figurative in the expression of even the ... figure rather than assuming that , because the figure of , say , Justice with her scales is now a cliché , it always ...
... figure in a sentence from The Rambler is aware of the heavy freight of the figurative in the expression of even the ... figure rather than assuming that , because the figure of , say , Justice with her scales is now a cliché , it always ...
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... figures have been covered over and hidden from us by successive semantic changes . It would be easy to miss the figure here , for example , in Chapter VII of Gibbon's Autobiography : upon Lord North's defeat , says Gibbon , ' The old ...
... figures have been covered over and hidden from us by successive semantic changes . It would be easy to miss the figure here , for example , in Chapter VII of Gibbon's Autobiography : upon Lord North's defeat , says Gibbon , ' The old ...
Contents
The Human Attributes | 28 |
The Uniformity of Human Nature | 54 |
The Depravity of Man | 70 |
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