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As its final chapter dryly admits , it is in the nature of any intellectual endeavor that it should produce a distorted view of things : " Every subject acquires an adventitious importance to him who considers it with application .
As its final chapter dryly admits , it is in the nature of any intellectual endeavor that it should produce a distorted view of things : " Every subject acquires an adventitious importance to him who considers it with application .
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And Dick Muggins opines : " The genteel thing is the genteel thing at any time - if so be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation ackoardingly ” —a mysterious piece of wisdom , but couched in fashionable terminology ( “ concatenation ...
And Dick Muggins opines : " The genteel thing is the genteel thing at any time - if so be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation ackoardingly ” —a mysterious piece of wisdom , but couched in fashionable terminology ( “ concatenation ...
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... those on Edmund Burke deliberately rock back and forth to express the paradoxical verdict that Goldsmith is compelled to bring in— " Though equal to all things , for all things unfit — and the poles of Burke's nature that ( such are ...
... those on Edmund Burke deliberately rock back and forth to express the paradoxical verdict that Goldsmith is compelled to bring in— " Though equal to all things , for all things unfit — and the poles of Burke's nature that ( such are ...
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| Title | Oliver Goldsmith Revisited Issue 487 of Twayne's English authors series |
| Authors | Former Chair of English Peter Dixon, Peter Dixon |
| Contributor | Oliver Goldsmith |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Twayne Publishers, 1991 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0805770089, 9780805770087 |
| Length | 157 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Criticism / General |
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