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Or , again , there is that design for conversation in The Idler — ' I will instruct the modest by easy generalities and repress the ostenta- tious by seasonable superciliousness . ' We smile.2 At times , indeed , Johnson could laugh at ...
Or , again , there is that design for conversation in The Idler — ' I will instruct the modest by easy generalities and repress the ostenta- tious by seasonable superciliousness . ' We smile.2 At times , indeed , Johnson could laugh at ...
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Now , Sir , the good I can do by my conversation bears the same proportion to the good I can do by my writings , that the practice of a physician , retired to a small town , does to his practice in a great city . ' Boswell .
Now , Sir , the good I can do by my conversation bears the same proportion to the good I can do by my writings , that the practice of a physician , retired to a small town , does to his practice in a great city . ' Boswell .
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to - day , as conversation . For him it was a serious intellectual exer- cise . Remember his grumble - ' We had talk enough , but no con- versation ; there was nothing discussed . ' And so Johnson was even more justified in his defence ...
to - day , as conversation . For him it was a serious intellectual exer- cise . Remember his grumble - ' We had talk enough , but no con- versation ; there was nothing discussed . ' And so Johnson was even more justified in his defence ...
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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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