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George Meredith An Essay on Comedy

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Meredith was born in Portsmouth, England, a son and grandson of naval outfitters.[1] His mother died when he [more]

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Helen Keller Optimism An Essay

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Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. [more]

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Francis Thompson Shelley an essay

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Francis Thompson (16 December 1859 – 13 November 1907) was an English poet and ascetic. After attending college, [more]

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John Oldmixon An Essay On Criticism

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John Oldmixon (1673 – July 9, 1742) was an English historian.He was a son of John Oldmixon of Oldmixon, Weston-super-Mare in Somerset.[1] He was brought up by the family of Admiral Robert Blake in Bridgwater and later became involved in trade through the port of Bristol.His first writings were poetry and dramas, among them being Amores Britannici; Epistles historical and gallant (1703); and a tragedy, The Governor of Cyprus. [more]

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George Meredith An Essay on Comedy

And the Uses of the Comic Spirit

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George Meredith, OM (12 February 1828 – 18 May 1909) was an English novelist and poet of the [more]

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Sir Richard Blackmore Essay upon Wit

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Sir Richard Blackmore (22 January 1654 – 9 October 1729), English poet and physician, is remembered primarily as [more]

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John Oldmixon An Essay on Criticism

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John Oldmixon (1673 – July 9, 1742) was an English historian. He was a son of John Oldmixon of Oldmixon, Weston-super-Mare in Somerset.[1] He was brought up by the family of Admiral Robert Blake in Bridgwater and later became involved in trade through the port of Bristol.[2] His first writings were poetry and dramas, among them being Amores Britannici; Epistles historical and gallant (1703); and a tragedy, The Governor of Cyprus. His earliest historical work was The British Empire in America (1708),[3] followed by The Secret History of Europe (1712-1715); Arcana Gallica, or the Secret History of France for the last Century (1714); and other smaller writings. [more]

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John Locke An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding

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John Locke FRS (/ˈlɒk/; 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704), was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and known as the "Father of Classical Liberalism".[2][3][4] Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Francis Bacon, he is equally important to social contract theory. His work greatly affected the development of epistemology and political philosophy. His writings influenced Voltaire and Rousseau, many Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, as well as the American revolutionaries. His contributions to classical republicanism and liberal theory are reflected in the United States Declaration of Independence. [more]

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Henry Gally Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings

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Henry Gally Knight, F.R.S. (2 December 1786 – 9 February 1846) was a British M.P., traveller and writer. He was the only son of Henry Gally (afterwards Gally Knight), barrister, of Langold. and was educated at Eton and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.[1] He succeeded in 1808 to estates at Firbeck and Langold Park which his father had inherited in 1804 from his brother John Gally Knight. He was appointed High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire for 1814–15. He was the author of several Oriental tales, Ilderim, a Syrian Tale (1816), Phrosyne, a Grecian Tale, and Alashtar, an Arabian Tale (1817). He was also an authority on architecture, and wrote various works on the subject, including The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Italy, and The Normans in Sicily, which brought him more reputation than his fictions. He was the nephew of the novelist Frances Jacson. [more]

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Th. Ribot Essay on the Creative Imagination

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Théodule-Armand Ribot (December 18, 1839 – December 9, 1916), French psychologist, was born at Guingamp, and was educated at the Lycée de St Brieuc. He is known for Ribot's Law regarding retrograde amnesia. In 1856 he began to teach, and was admitted to the École Normale Supérieure in 1862. In 1885 he gave a course of lectures on Experimental Psychology at the Sorbonne, and in 1888 was appointed professor of that subject at the College of France. His thesis for his doctors' degree, republished in 1882, Hérédité: étude psychologique (5th ed., 1889), was his most important and best known book. [more]

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