The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithCassell, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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... whole period . No two individuals since the human race began have ever been exactly alike ; great men are still less like their fellows , or we should not call them ' great ' ; how then , it may be asked , can one talk to any purpose ...
... whole period . No two individuals since the human race began have ever been exactly alike ; great men are still less like their fellows , or we should not call them ' great ' ; how then , it may be asked , can one talk to any purpose ...
Pagina 131
... whole eighteenth cen- tury ( though at such an idea he might have smiled dis- dainfully , and taken snuff ) —indeed , one of the queerest in any century - seems to me Lord Chesterfield . To some of his contemporaries he appeared a ...
... whole eighteenth cen- tury ( though at such an idea he might have smiled dis- dainfully , and taken snuff ) —indeed , one of the queerest in any century - seems to me Lord Chesterfield . To some of his contemporaries he appeared a ...
Pagina 269
... whole empire and more than a whole millennium . Yet it remains astonishing , con- sidering the haystacks of paper poor Boswell had to sift , and the multitude of sources , living and written , he had to consult , that so much was ...
... whole empire and more than a whole millennium . Yet it remains astonishing , con- sidering the haystacks of paper poor Boswell had to sift , and the multitude of sources , living and written , he had to consult , that so much was ...
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The EighteenthCentury Mind PAGE | 1 |
Johnson | 25 |
Lord Chesterfield | 129 |
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