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Warren W. Read. FOREWORD The constantly increasing use of the essay form in magazines and books for adult reading has resulted in a wider study of the mature essay in schools . In the past , this study was largely devoted to the literary ...
Warren W. Read. FOREWORD The constantly increasing use of the essay form in magazines and books for adult reading has resulted in a wider study of the mature essay in schools . In the past , this study was largely devoted to the literary ...
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... essay is the expression of that mood , the least you can do is to sit quietly down with him , say to yourself , " Now I'll see what he has to say , " and listen attentively while he says ... essay . THE ESSAY AS A TYPE The essay is often as.
... essay is the expression of that mood , the least you can do is to sit quietly down with him , say to yourself , " Now I'll see what he has to say , " and listen attentively while he says ... essay . THE ESSAY AS A TYPE The essay is often as.
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... essay began . Francis Bacon , early in the seventeenth century , took the name " essay " from Montaigne , and wrote some sixty short comments on phases of life as he saw it — coldly in tellectual expressions of mind rather than of mood ...
... essay began . Francis Bacon , early in the seventeenth century , took the name " essay " from Montaigne , and wrote some sixty short comments on phases of life as he saw it — coldly in tellectual expressions of mind rather than of mood ...
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ON GOING A JOURNEY William Hazlitt | 7 |
HOLIDAY John Galsworthy | 18 |
OF FRIENDSHIP Francis Bacon | 25 |
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