English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century
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English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century, by Leslie Stephen, presents the Ford Lectures of 1903. A letter to Herbert Fisher at New College, Oxford says the lectures were prepared for delivery, but a serious breakdown of health made it utterly impossible for the writer to appear in person. The text says that to appreciate any great writer fully it is necessary to distinguish between the characteristics due to the individual and those due to his special modification by the existing stage of social and intellectual development.
The text says that Chesterfield's favourite author is Rochefoucauld, of whom, not the Bible, his son is to read a chapter every day. Chesterfield says more than once, Wriggle yourself into power. The text says that the growth of history had led to renewed interest in much that had been despised as mere curiosities or ridiculed as implying the barbarism of our ancestors.
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- Leslie Stephen
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