The Rhetorical Tradition in French Literature of the Later Middle Ages: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered in the University of Exeter on 17 January 1969 |
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... least realise that our criticisms can have nothing new about them . They would not differ funda- mentally from those made by Socrates in Plato's Gorgias ( subtitled On Rhetoric ) . The effect of Socrates ' ironical questioning of the ...
... least realise that our criticisms can have nothing new about them . They would not differ funda- mentally from those made by Socrates in Plato's Gorgias ( subtitled On Rhetoric ) . The effect of Socrates ' ironical questioning of the ...
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... least endeavour to understand it . The real point is that in those times there was little interest in the individual per se , and medieval scholarship tended to treat its sources in a cavalier fashion , seeking confirmation of its own ...
... least endeavour to understand it . The real point is that in those times there was little interest in the individual per se , and medieval scholarship tended to treat its sources in a cavalier fashion , seeking confirmation of its own ...
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... least better to be poor and alive than to have been a lord like Jacques Coeur and to be rotting ' sous riche tombeau ' . He goes on : Qu'avoir esté seigneur ? . . . Que dis ? Seigneur ? las ! et ne l'est il mais ? Selon les davitiques ...
... least better to be poor and alive than to have been a lord like Jacques Coeur and to be rotting ' sous riche tombeau ' . He goes on : Qu'avoir esté seigneur ? . . . Que dis ? Seigneur ? las ! et ne l'est il mais ? Selon les davitiques ...
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