The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithMacmillan, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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... charm and grace , courage and intelligence , of the En- lightenment may have been confined to a happy few . But these are here my concern . Their qualities are what really matters to us , the living . For from them we may still learn ...
... charm and grace , courage and intelligence , of the En- lightenment may have been confined to a happy few . But these are here my concern . Their qualities are what really matters to us , the living . For from them we may still learn ...
Pagina 174
... charm ; yet charm is precisely what , on paper at least , he lacks . He is not very easy to like . Perhaps the best things about him are his self - command and his courage . This old Epicurean became also a Stoic . His hopes failed - he ...
... charm ; yet charm is precisely what , on paper at least , he lacks . He is not very easy to like . Perhaps the best things about him are his self - command and his courage . This old Epicurean became also a Stoic . His hopes failed - he ...
Pagina 289
... charm of the Citizen of the World . He decides on further studies in France ; only to be arrested at Newcastle ( supposing we can believe him ) on a suspicion of re- cruiting Scots for the French service - most luckily , since his ship ...
... charm of the Citizen of the World . He decides on further studies in France ; only to be arrested at Newcastle ( supposing we can believe him ) on a suspicion of re- cruiting Scots for the French service - most luckily , since his ship ...
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