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But when it comes to the happy few - to that intellectual minority which produces the thought and literature of an age - the compari- son seems to me much less in our favour . With rare exceptions , such as Bertrand Russell or Somerset ...
But when it comes to the happy few - to that intellectual minority which produces the thought and literature of an age - the compari- son seems to me much less in our favour . With rare exceptions , such as Bertrand Russell or Somerset ...
Pagina 117
Next comes another philosopher - this time a nature - philosopher , whose principle is simply ' that deviation from nature is deviation from happiness ' . ' When he had spoken , he looked round him with a placid air , and enjoyed the ...
Next comes another philosopher - this time a nature - philosopher , whose principle is simply ' that deviation from nature is deviation from happiness ' . ' When he had spoken , he looked round him with a placid air , and enjoyed the ...
Pagina 318
... and the strain becomes unpleasant ; some are permanently relaxed - and the effect is lazy or dull ; the happy compromise comes with an easeful relaxation that can yet , when occasion comes , suddenly tighten to intensity and force .
... and the strain becomes unpleasant ; some are permanently relaxed - and the effect is lazy or dull ; the happy compromise comes with an easeful relaxation that can yet , when occasion comes , suddenly tighten to intensity and force .
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The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson ... Frank Laurence Lucas Vizualizare fragmente - 1958 |
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