The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] Goldsmith |
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The living interest lies far less in facts than in ideas , in minds , in personalities . Yet can we hope really to grasp the minds of the dead ? We stand frustrated like Æneas , face to face in burning Troy with the phantom of the wife ...
The living interest lies far less in facts than in ideas , in minds , in personalities . Yet can we hope really to grasp the minds of the dead ? We stand frustrated like Æneas , face to face in burning Troy with the phantom of the wife ...
Pagina 67
But , in general , his political ideas do not seem more than a blend of prejudices , commonsense , and ( sometimes ) humanity ; just as his religious ideas seem largely a blend of forlorn hope and nightmare .
But , in general , his political ideas do not seem more than a blend of prejudices , commonsense , and ( sometimes ) humanity ; just as his religious ideas seem largely a blend of forlorn hope and nightmare .
Pagina 188
... bowed thrice to Arthur Seat , that lofty romantic mountain on which I have so often strayed in my days of youth , indulged meditation and felt the raptures of a soul filled with ideas of the magnificence of God and his creation .
... bowed thrice to Arthur Seat , that lofty romantic mountain on which I have so often strayed in my days of youth , indulged meditation and felt the raptures of a soul filled with ideas of the magnificence of God and his creation .
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The EighteenthCentury Mind PAGE | 1 |
Johnson | 25 |
Lord Chesterfield | 129 |
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