The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithCassell, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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... truth ; but the whole truth - never . Even Montaigne sometimes misleads ; even Rousseau , though unblushing in his exhibitionism , is quite untrustworthy . Pepys , indeed , and Boswell , journalizing for themselves alone , do convince ...
... truth ; but the whole truth - never . Even Montaigne sometimes misleads ; even Rousseau , though unblushing in his exhibitionism , is quite untrustworthy . Pepys , indeed , and Boswell , journalizing for themselves alone , do convince ...
Pagina 114
... truth . ' Few readers in this century , it is to be feared , will have gained from The Rambler much ' ardour ' towards virtue , or indeed much ardour towards anything else . Yet the last sentence is not without its impressiveness ...
... truth . ' Few readers in this century , it is to be feared , will have gained from The Rambler much ' ardour ' towards virtue , or indeed much ardour towards anything else . Yet the last sentence is not without its impressiveness ...
Pagina 267
... truth about him - so far as that truth can be found . Such is the price of fame If one does not wish to pay , one should avoid becoming famous— it is seldom difficult ; but it is idle to aim both at being known and at being unknown . In ...
... truth about him - so far as that truth can be found . Such is the price of fame If one does not wish to pay , one should avoid becoming famous— it is seldom difficult ; but it is idle to aim both at being known and at being unknown . In ...
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The EighteenthCentury Mind PAGE | 1 |
Johnson | 25 |
Lord Chesterfield | 129 |
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