The knowledge of this fact lowers the tone of the press, and circumscribes both authors and speakers, as any allusions to history or general literature would be very imperfectly, if at all, understood.
However actively the gentlemen of New York are engaged in business pursuits, they travel, read the papers, and often devote some time to general literature.
The conversation generally turned on Europe, general literature, art, science, or the events of the day.
Inasmuch as it shares the intellectual aspirations of the past and the present, their conflicts and their reverses, it is supplementary to general literature.
The influence of Transcendentalism on general literature can be only indicated in loose terms.
As a portion of general literature, the novel, as the most popular, exerts the widest sway.
The influence of general literature is impelled by the mingled current.
Index to general literature (part of reprint) 108.
The temptation is the greater because the service of a book of this sort is a service whose results are readily demonstrable, it is concrete and objective;--while that of general literature is but subjective.
It would seem too as if he had gained some reputation as a judge of general literature, for Howell in his familiar letters writes to him:-- "To Dr.
There is no doubt that here we have a complete list of the subjects taught in what may be called the schools of general literature in ancient Erin.
But this was rather a school of theology than of general literature, and designed more for adult inquirers, both male and female, than for the systematic instruction of the young.
But his volume of Essays was a contribution to general literature.
Mr. Beecher was too busy a man to give more than his spare moments to general literature.
Jefferson has some claims, to rank as an author in general literature.
The various departments of history, classical scholarship, general literature, lexicography, and poetry were again filled with enthusiastic workers, eagerly encouraged by a succession of enlightened rulers.
As a pendant to this work Li Fang designed the T'ai P'ing Kuang Chi, an encyclopaedia of biographical and other information drawn from general literature.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "general literature" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
