The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithMacmillan, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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... knew moments of chilling doubt : That Science is a blind man's guess And History a nurse's tale . Henry Ford , passing beyond doubt , dismissed all history with 1 There are modern biographies that provoke those who knew the originals ...
... knew moments of chilling doubt : That Science is a blind man's guess And History a nurse's tale . Henry Ford , passing beyond doubt , dismissed all history with 1 There are modern biographies that provoke those who knew the originals ...
Pagina 5
... knew more of the past , we should not think we knew so much ; if we understood it better , we might cease to hope to understand it . I stress these uncertainties of history because it seems to me essential , for honesty , to preserve ...
... knew more of the past , we should not think we knew so much ; if we understood it better , we might cease to hope to understand it . I stress these uncertainties of history because it seems to me essential , for honesty , to preserve ...
Pagina 34
... knew , as he affirmed , almost as much at eighteen as at fifty - three . For Adam Smith considered that ' Johnson knew more books than any man alive ' . Perhaps like some other reputedly omniscient readers , he 1 Though , like the short ...
... knew , as he affirmed , almost as much at eighteen as at fifty - three . For Adam Smith considered that ' Johnson knew more books than any man alive ' . Perhaps like some other reputedly omniscient readers , he 1 Though , like the short ...
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