Studies in the literature of the Augustan Age: Essays collected in honor of Arthur Ellicott CaseRichard Charles Boys Distributed for the Augustan Reprint Society by the George Wahr Pub. Co., 1952 - English literature - 367 pages |
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All authorities seem to agree that laughter, whether derisive, neutral, or
sympathetic, is a great corrective of human conduct; but its characteristic
judgment is based on other than moral grounds, and its issue is merriment rather
than ...
All authorities seem to agree that laughter, whether derisive, neutral, or
sympathetic, is a great corrective of human conduct; but its characteristic
judgment is based on other than moral grounds, and its issue is merriment rather
than ...
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Of the rigorists who attack the Fable with any insight, almost all " are driven at
some point or other to turn upon their own rigorism and to set up instead some
form of utilitarianism; that is, to maintain that moral laws are justly to be shaped
and ...
Of the rigorists who attack the Fable with any insight, almost all " are driven at
some point or other to turn upon their own rigorism and to set up instead some
form of utilitarianism; that is, to maintain that moral laws are justly to be shaped
and ...
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equally well described as moral nihilism, philosophical anarchism, or pyrrhonism.
In morals, declared Mandeville, there are no universally valid rules of conduct.
No person believes one thing but someone professes the opposite; no nation ...
equally well described as moral nihilism, philosophical anarchism, or pyrrhonism.
In morals, declared Mandeville, there are no universally valid rules of conduct.
No person believes one thing but someone professes the opposite; no nation ...
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Contents
The Beggars Opera | 14 |
The Authenticity of Anna Sewards Published Correspondence | 50 |
The Nature of Dr Johnsons Rationalism | 89 |
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| Title | Studies in the literature of the Augustan Age: Essays collected in honor of Arthur Ellicott Case Publication(Augustan Reprint Society) |
| Editor | Richard Charles Boys |
| Publisher | Distributed for the Augustan Reprint Society by the George Wahr Pub. Co., 1952 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Feb 2009 |
| Length | 367 pages |
| Subjects | English literature |
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