The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithMacmillan, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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Pagina 63
... Hume must have lied in saying he had no fears of the hereafter ? Unless it be Johnson's argument for it— that , believing in no hereafter , Hume had no motive not to lie . Clearly Johnson cannot have it both ways . Either Hume believed ...
... Hume must have lied in saying he had no fears of the hereafter ? Unless it be Johnson's argument for it— that , believing in no hereafter , Hume had no motive not to lie . Clearly Johnson cannot have it both ways . Either Hume believed ...
Pagina 222
... Hume , in his simple kindliness , had just invited the per- secuted Rousseau to take refuge in England ; despite ... Hume's ( January 19 , 1766 ) , ' owns her to be so dull , that she never knows in what year of the Lord she is , nor in ...
... Hume , in his simple kindliness , had just invited the per- secuted Rousseau to take refuge in England ; despite ... Hume's ( January 19 , 1766 ) , ' owns her to be so dull , that she never knows in what year of the Lord she is , nor in ...
Pagina 243
... Hume one of the strangest scenes on record . For it was the dying man that was placidly humor- ous , the visitor that was terrified ; Boswell was appalled precisely because Hume was not appalled by the near prospect of annihila- tion ...
... Hume one of the strangest scenes on record . For it was the dying man that was placidly humor- ous , the visitor that was terrified ; Boswell was appalled precisely because Hume was not appalled by the near prospect of annihila- tion ...
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The EighteenthCentury Mind PAGE | 1 |
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Lord Chesterfield | 129 |
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