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Perhaps our posterity may one day wonder as much at the excess of superfluities we cram into our heads , as we wonder now at the of superAuities our ancestors crammed into their bellies . Many of them over - ate : many of us over - read ...
Perhaps our posterity may one day wonder as much at the excess of superfluities we cram into our heads , as we wonder now at the of superAuities our ancestors crammed into their bellies . Many of them over - ate : many of us over - read ...
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It did not occur to Chesterfield to wonder whether a better educated Shakespeare would necessarily have produced all the beauties whose unlaboured spontaneity we admire . But from Chesterfield's pedagogic zeal not even vegetables were ...
It did not occur to Chesterfield to wonder whether a better educated Shakespeare would necessarily have produced all the beauties whose unlaboured spontaneity we admire . But from Chesterfield's pedagogic zeal not even vegetables were ...
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Without science our civilization could no longer even eat ; yet one may be allowed at times to wonder what sort of civilization the scientific future holds in store . And the ghost of Johnson answers : ' Sir , you may wonder .
Without science our civilization could no longer even eat ; yet one may be allowed at times to wonder what sort of civilization the scientific future holds in store . And the ghost of Johnson answers : ' Sir , you may wonder .
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Lord Chesterfield | 129 |
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The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson ... Frank Laurence Lucas Vizualizare fragmente - 1958 |
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