The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithMacmillan, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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... curiosity which provides the only impulse for much history and much science . Curiosity , no doubt , is precious . It ... curious example of futile investigation in Dr and Mrs Kennedy , who were living in Derbyshire about 1774 and ' were ...
... curiosity which provides the only impulse for much history and much science . Curiosity , no doubt , is precious . It ... curious example of futile investigation in Dr and Mrs Kennedy , who were living in Derbyshire about 1774 and ' were ...
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... curious about nothing is to be nearly dead ; to be curious about too few things , is to be narrow ; to be curious about too many , is to be shallow . The kind of general- knowledge questions beloved by some schoolmasters and journa ...
... curious about nothing is to be nearly dead ; to be curious about too few things , is to be narrow ; to be curious about too many , is to be shallow . The kind of general- knowledge questions beloved by some schoolmasters and journa ...
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... curious way , no doubt , he loved both his son and his godson ; but he did not make himself very lovable . He piqued him- self too much on not being soft . He condemned Lord and Lady Blessington for spoiling their son ; whereas I ...
... curious way , no doubt , he loved both his son and his godson ; but he did not make himself very lovable . He piqued him- self too much on not being soft . He condemned Lord and Lady Blessington for spoiling their son ; whereas I ...
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