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Pagina 64
And had he been as gaily sceptical as Hume or Voltaire , there seems no reason to believe that he would have become any less generous or compassionate ; though he might have ceased to be so prudish as to scold Hannah More for having ...
And had he been as gaily sceptical as Hume or Voltaire , there seems no reason to believe that he would have become any less generous or compassionate ; though he might have ceased to be so prudish as to scold Hannah More for having ...
Pagina 96
Thus , by another paradox , he who had been at times one of the most abstract of writers , becomes one of the most concrete . Abstract personifications stagger lamely about the pages of The Rambler ; but Johnson's concrete images leap ...
Thus , by another paradox , he who had been at times one of the most abstract of writers , becomes one of the most concrete . Abstract personifications stagger lamely about the pages of The Rambler ; but Johnson's concrete images leap ...
Pagina 148
To be more precise , one should not tell lies ( except in diplomacy , where they become a duty ) . One should not drink too much . ( Chesterfield was surprisingly temperate , in that age of topers , and wished ' it would but please God ...
To be more precise , one should not tell lies ( except in diplomacy , where they become a duty ) . One should not drink too much . ( Chesterfield was surprisingly temperate , in that age of topers , and wished ' it would but please God ...
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The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson ... Frank Laurence Lucas Vizualizare fragmente - 1958 |
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