The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithMacmillan, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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... doubts of her . Is she , perhaps , only a loquacious liar , a deceitful baggage , after all ? We can trust History , no doubt , for billions of bare facts . Yet how bare are bare facts ! The living interest lies far less in facts than ...
... doubts of her . Is she , perhaps , only a loquacious liar , a deceitful baggage , after all ? We can trust History , no doubt , for billions of bare facts . Yet how bare are bare facts ! The living interest lies far less in facts than ...
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... doubts that cling to history . ' What will you read , child ? ' said Sir Robert Walpole to his son Horace . ' Some ... doubt , dismissed all history with 1 There are modern biographies that provoke those who knew the originals ...
... doubts that cling to history . ' What will you read , child ? ' said Sir Robert Walpole to his son Horace . ' Some ... doubt , dismissed all history with 1 There are modern biographies that provoke those who knew the originals ...
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... doubt , partly dis- interested , but not without a touch of self - importance . As Words- worth bound The White Doe in quarto to show how much he thought of it , so at times Johnson liked to speak his thoughts in polysyllables to show ...
... doubt , partly dis- interested , but not without a touch of self - importance . As Words- worth bound The White Doe in quarto to show how much he thought of it , so at times Johnson liked to speak his thoughts in polysyllables to show ...
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