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No two individuals since the human race began have ever been exactly alike ; great men are still less like their fellows , or we should not call them ' great ' ; how then , it may be asked , can one talk to any purpose about the spirits ...
No two individuals since the human race began have ever been exactly alike ; great men are still less like their fellows , or we should not call them ' great ' ; how then , it may be asked , can one talk to any purpose about the spirits ...
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It was remarked that nothing got cheaper , except human life ; and the hanging judge , Sir Francis Page ( who tried Savage for murder - see Johnson's Savage ) , being asked in 1741 , at the age of eighty , how he was , could ...
It was remarked that nothing got cheaper , except human life ; and the hanging judge , Sir Francis Page ( who tried Savage for murder - see Johnson's Savage ) , being asked in 1741 , at the age of eighty , how he was , could ...
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Still , it may well be that most men ( especially intellectuals ) , remember too little , rather than too much , Johnson's principle of asking— ' What use in knowing that ? ' There are plenty of industrious pedants who might gain by ...
Still , it may well be that most men ( especially intellectuals ) , remember too little , rather than too much , Johnson's principle of asking— ' What use in knowing that ? ' There are plenty of industrious pedants who might gain by ...
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The EighteenthCentury Mind PAGE | 1 |
Johnson | 25 |
Lord Chesterfield | 129 |
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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 |
| Exemplar original de la | Universitatea din Michigan |
| Scanată la | 25 iul. 2006 |
| Lungime | 354 pagini |
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