The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithCassell, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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Pagina 153
... strange idea of the Kingdom of God - ' a man who does not generally please is nobody ' - Chester- field was at least unflinchingly faithful to it , in his own queer fashion . One may discount something in the reminiscences of elderly ...
... strange idea of the Kingdom of God - ' a man who does not generally please is nobody ' - Chester- field was at least unflinchingly faithful to it , in his own queer fashion . One may discount something in the reminiscences of elderly ...
Pagina 183
... strange remark for so admirable a biographer as Lord David Cecil . ( Or else Oxford must be a strange place . ) Does he find it ' typical ' among men of his acquaintance to sit up four nights in a week recording the minutest follies of ...
... strange remark for so admirable a biographer as Lord David Cecil . ( Or else Oxford must be a strange place . ) Does he find it ' typical ' among men of his acquaintance to sit up four nights in a week recording the minutest follies of ...
Pagina 339
... strange and fascinating enough in themselves , without any need to squeeze conclusions from them . ' L'ineptie , ' thought Flaubert , ' consiste à vouloir con- clure . ' Yet even that was a conclusion . And if one thinks at all over ...
... strange and fascinating enough in themselves , without any need to squeeze conclusions from them . ' L'ineptie , ' thought Flaubert , ' consiste à vouloir con- clure . ' Yet even that was a conclusion . And if one thinks at all over ...
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The EighteenthCentury Mind PAGE | 1 |
Johnson | 25 |
Lord Chesterfield | 129 |
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