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Now the stamp of any period may be largely moulded by vast impersonal forces ; but I suspect that it is also largely determined by a few thousands , or ten thousands , of that period's finer personalities , by a few dozens or hundreds ...
Now the stamp of any period may be largely moulded by vast impersonal forces ; but I suspect that it is also largely determined by a few thousands , or ten thousands , of that period's finer personalities , by a few dozens or hundreds ...
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And why , though his educational precepts sold so well after his death , did his own attempts to educate so largely fail ? First , why did Chesterfield take such a flatly opposite view to that later Whig peer , Lord Melbourne ...
And why , though his educational precepts sold so well after his death , did his own attempts to educate so largely fail ? First , why did Chesterfield take such a flatly opposite view to that later Whig peer , Lord Melbourne ...
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If Boswell is more than a pathetic figure of fun , it is largely because , though so often senseless himself , he tirelessly pursued good sense and intellectual distinction in others . If Chesterfield , too prone to mistake cleverness ...
If Boswell is more than a pathetic figure of fun , it is largely because , though so often senseless himself , he tirelessly pursued good sense and intellectual distinction in others . If Chesterfield , too prone to mistake cleverness ...
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| Titlu | The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] Goldsmith |
| Autor | Frank Laurence Lucas |
| Editor | Cassell, 1958 |
| Lungime | 354 pagini |
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