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... historians in the eighteenth century had come to distrust . With the work of the historian so narrowed , the most influential decisions Defoe makes are structural . The way the historian arranges his material determines far more than ...
... historians in the eighteenth century had come to distrust . With the work of the historian so narrowed , the most influential decisions Defoe makes are structural . The way the historian arranges his material determines far more than ...
Page 83
... historians such as Livy and Tacitus.22 They tried to limit interpretation to efforts to clarify , and Defoe's " Observations " and expository sections conform to this closely . Beneath the spare prose , however , we can glimpse Defoe's ...
... historians such as Livy and Tacitus.22 They tried to limit interpretation to efforts to clarify , and Defoe's " Observations " and expository sections conform to this closely . Beneath the spare prose , however , we can glimpse Defoe's ...
Page 109
... historians . Long before this time , most historians confined God to first causes and defended their concentration on second causes . Thomas Twyne , for example , tells us that " God worketh evermore by second causes unless He worketh ...
... historians . Long before this time , most historians confined God to first causes and defended their concentration on second causes . Thomas Twyne , for example , tells us that " God worketh evermore by second causes unless He worketh ...
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