The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] Goldsmith |
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Now the stamp of any period may be largely moulded by vast impersonal forces ; but I suspect that it is also largely determined by a few thousands , or ten thousands , of that period's finer per- sonalities , by a few dozens or hundreds ...
Now the stamp of any period may be largely moulded by vast impersonal forces ; but I suspect that it is also largely determined by a few thousands , or ten thousands , of that period's finer per- sonalities , by a few dozens or hundreds ...
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And why , though his educational precepts sold so well after his death , did his own attempts to educate so largely fail ? First , why did Chesterfield take such a flatly opposite view to that later Whig peer , Lord Melbourne ...
And why , though his educational precepts sold so well after his death , did his own attempts to educate so largely fail ? First , why did Chesterfield take such a flatly opposite view to that later Whig peer , Lord Melbourne ...
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Goldsmith too might have remembered how many villages , even while he wrote , lay deserted and destroyed from Calcutta to Quebec , largely because a fame - thirsty young monarch had once seized a Naboth's vineyard in Silesia .
Goldsmith too might have remembered how many villages , even while he wrote , lay deserted and destroyed from Calcutta to Quebec , largely because a fame - thirsty young monarch had once seized a Naboth's vineyard in Silesia .
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Johnson | 25 |
Lord Chesterfield | 129 |
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