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Arbuthnot as essays in common courtesy, has the author been able to explain the individual sense of each one in turn and to show how its creator made this sense
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While the popular talk of English common sense in the eighteenth century might seem a by-product of familiar Enlightenment discourses of rationalism and empiric
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From the Middle Ages up to the present day, this book traces politeness in the history of the English language.
Eighteenth-Century Manners of Reading
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The English Novel, 1700-1740
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The English novel written between 1700 and 1740 remains a comparatively neglected area. In addition to Daniel Defoe, whose Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders are