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... spirit behind . And indeed , in the work of the later classicists , there was too often no spirit to look for . The husk alone remained — a finicky pretentious frame- work , fluttering with the faded rags of ideals long outworn . Every ...
... spirit behind . And indeed , in the work of the later classicists , there was too often no spirit to look for . The husk alone remained — a finicky pretentious frame- work , fluttering with the faded rags of ideals long outworn . Every ...
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... spirit of national life . With the actual processes of political change , with the practical details of political machinery , very few of them concerned themselves . Some of them — such as the illustrious Turgot - believed that the best ...
... spirit of national life . With the actual processes of political change , with the practical details of political machinery , very few of them concerned themselves . Some of them — such as the illustrious Turgot - believed that the best ...
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... spirit was almost completely abandoned . The pendulum swung violently from one extreme to the other . The new movement had been already faintly dis- cernible in Diderot's bright colouring and the oratorical structure of Rousseau's ...
... spirit was almost completely abandoned . The pendulum swung violently from one extreme to the other . The new movement had been already faintly dis- cernible in Diderot's bright colouring and the oratorical structure of Rousseau's ...
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ORIGINS THE MIDDLE AGES | 7 |
THE AGE OF TRANSITION | 31 |
THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT | 142 |
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