The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithCassell, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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... course , enjoy the fantastic and the in- sane . That is a matter of taste ; and therefore vain to argue over ; but one can argue that , in the long run , the consequences of such pleasures are apt to be very far from pleasant . However ...
... course , enjoy the fantastic and the in- sane . That is a matter of taste ; and therefore vain to argue over ; but one can argue that , in the long run , the consequences of such pleasures are apt to be very far from pleasant . However ...
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... course , his essay becomes childish . One may wish that he had paused before writing that mathematics ' seems a science to which the meanest intellects are equal ' ; or that Dante owed his glory to the obscurity of his barbarous age ...
... course , his essay becomes childish . One may wish that he had paused before writing that mathematics ' seems a science to which the meanest intellects are equal ' ; or that Dante owed his glory to the obscurity of his barbarous age ...
Pagina 305
... course , a far deeper and more thorough thinker - a man who strangely combined elements of Goldsmith , Gibbon , and Burke . One can never get used to the idea that the writer who threw off those seemingly pert and frivolous Lettres ...
... course , a far deeper and more thorough thinker - a man who strangely combined elements of Goldsmith , Gibbon , and Burke . One can never get used to the idea that the writer who threw off those seemingly pert and frivolous Lettres ...
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