Daniel Defoe: Ambition & InnovationUniversity Press of Kentucky, 1986 - 299 pagini |
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Pagina 107
... knowledge available to his countrymen and to offer it for their improvement . Like Fabyan , Stow , and Speed , he begins his history with the Flood , 74 and his opening chapters depend heavily upon biblical admoni- tions . His broadest ...
... knowledge available to his countrymen and to offer it for their improvement . Like Fabyan , Stow , and Speed , he begins his history with the Flood , 74 and his opening chapters depend heavily upon biblical admoni- tions . His broadest ...
Pagina 110
... knowledge , and to partake fully in a progressive theory of history . Again and again , Defoe tells us that each generation finds its lot improved by " discoveries and improve- ments . " People learn to use the resources of the earth ...
... knowledge , and to partake fully in a progressive theory of history . Again and again , Defoe tells us that each generation finds its lot improved by " discoveries and improve- ments . " People learn to use the resources of the earth ...
Pagina 116
... knowledge and the decline of superstition . The same reworkings of the tales of Faustus and Prometheus appear . 92 These histories range the world and unite men throughout the ages and nations by demonstrating their common interests in ...
... knowledge and the decline of superstition . The same reworkings of the tales of Faustus and Prometheus appear . 92 These histories range the world and unite men throughout the ages and nations by demonstrating their common interests in ...
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POETRY | 12 |
PAMPHLETS AND POLITICS | 42 |
THE HISTORIES | 70 |
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