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... Traveller . " The British set too high a value on freedom , exalting it at the expense of so- cial unity and the ties of honor and love . The vaunted independence of these " lordlings " -the noun is effectively disparaging - brings ...
... Traveller . " The British set too high a value on freedom , exalting it at the expense of so- cial unity and the ties of honor and love . The vaunted independence of these " lordlings " -the noun is effectively disparaging - brings ...
Page 102
... Traveller " chooses to " fly from petty tyrants " -the overreaching oligarchs- " to the throne . " Or , as the Vicar of Wakefield puts it in his po- litical harangue , the " election " of a monarch ( Goldsmith prefers not to weaken his ...
... Traveller " chooses to " fly from petty tyrants " -the overreaching oligarchs- " to the throne . " Or , as the Vicar of Wakefield puts it in his po- litical harangue , the " election " of a monarch ( Goldsmith prefers not to weaken his ...
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... Traveller " " Retaliation , " 138-41 " Theseus did see , " 3 “ Threnodia Augustalis , ” 19 , 67–68 " Traveller , The , " 14 , 40 , 41-42 , 63 , 77 , 98-99 , 101-9 , 117 WORKS - PROSE : " Account of the Augustan Age of England , An ...
... Traveller " " Retaliation , " 138-41 " Theseus did see , " 3 “ Threnodia Augustalis , ” 19 , 67–68 " Traveller , The , " 14 , 40 , 41-42 , 63 , 77 , 98-99 , 101-9 , 117 WORKS - PROSE : " Account of the Augustan Age of England , An ...
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