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2008
Abstract In Achsah Guibbory’s words, Religio Medici comes ‘discomfortingly close to the controversial positions of the Laudians’. She is certainly right, and not the first to note the proximity. Yet one does not find Browne’s name in recent historical scholarship on Laudianism, which is surprisingly thin and, as Guibbory’s dis-comfort ...
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Abstract In Achsah Guibbory’s words, Religio Medici comes ‘discomfortingly close to the controversial positions of the Laudians’. She is certainly right, and not the first to note the proximity. Yet one does not find Browne’s name in recent historical scholarship on Laudianism, which is surprisingly thin and, as Guibbory’s dis-comfort ...
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The Educational Forum, 1938
Abstract The inspired idiot! Nothing less, nothing more. That was Oliver Goldsmith. The world still reads the Deserted Village and the Vicar of Wakefield, and lovers of the stage still applaud She Stoops to Conquer. But how many know the innate eccentricities of their author and the embarrassments and even agonies those eccentricities brought to him?
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Abstract The inspired idiot! Nothing less, nothing more. That was Oliver Goldsmith. The world still reads the Deserted Village and the Vicar of Wakefield, and lovers of the stage still applaud She Stoops to Conquer. But how many know the innate eccentricities of their author and the embarrassments and even agonies those eccentricities brought to him?
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2001
Abstract During the Victorian period, England witnessed a dramatic change in the education of mentally disabled children. Before the early 19th century, idiots were thought to be uneducable. Indeed, the very definition of idiocy revolved around the inability of idiots to be ‘improved’.
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Abstract During the Victorian period, England witnessed a dramatic change in the education of mentally disabled children. Before the early 19th century, idiots were thought to be uneducable. Indeed, the very definition of idiocy revolved around the inability of idiots to be ‘improved’.
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