The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithCassell, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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... Imagine that London with its seventeen thousand gin - shops ledge ( much less than , I hope , you have already ) of that language ' ( January 15 , 1748 ) . At this date Philip Stanhope was fifteen ! But not everything can have been so ...
... Imagine that London with its seventeen thousand gin - shops ledge ( much less than , I hope , you have already ) of that language ' ( January 15 , 1748 ) . At this date Philip Stanhope was fifteen ! But not everything can have been so ...
Pagina 158
... imagine , either , that the Ancients were any better than the Moderns - I cannot suppose , ' he argues , ' that the animals or vegetables were better then than now . ' So why human beings ? In fact , for Chesterfield , the human race ...
... imagine , either , that the Ancients were any better than the Moderns - I cannot suppose , ' he argues , ' that the animals or vegetables were better then than now . ' So why human beings ? In fact , for Chesterfield , the human race ...
Pagina 267
... imagine , partly ethical , partly æsthetic . It was his duty to tell the strange truth ; but he also loved it . He adored oddities . He hunted lions . And of course a lion - hunter will not want to cut their claws ; he is more likely to ...
... imagine , partly ethical , partly æsthetic . It was his duty to tell the strange truth ; but he also loved it . He adored oddities . He hunted lions . And of course a lion - hunter will not want to cut their claws ; he is more likely to ...
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The EighteenthCentury Mind PAGE | 1 |
Johnson | 25 |
Lord Chesterfield | 129 |
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