The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithMacmillan, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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... English characters ; he is also one of the most English . It is , you will find , not easy to acclimatize foreigners to him . They are apt to ask wonderingly what on earth we see in such a man . They do not understand what seems to them ...
... English characters ; he is also one of the most English . It is , you will find , not easy to acclimatize foreigners to him . They are apt to ask wonderingly what on earth we see in such a man . They do not understand what seems to them ...
Pagina 126
... English are perhaps specially prone to self - deception . We have a reputation for mental dishonesty . And it is an unpleasant one . Still this vice may be , in part , due to a virtue . It could be argued that there is more public and ...
... English are perhaps specially prone to self - deception . We have a reputation for mental dishonesty . And it is an unpleasant one . Still this vice may be , in part , due to a virtue . It could be argued that there is more public and ...
Pagina 265
... English language . Westminster has associa- tions with English at its best , Whitechapel with English not at its best ; they are therefore far more pointed and relevant than Dover and Calais . In short , Boswell has here by no means ...
... English language . Westminster has associa- tions with English at its best , Whitechapel with English not at its best ; they are therefore far more pointed and relevant than Dover and Calais . In short , Boswell has here by no means ...
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