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Now the stamp of any period may be largely moulded by vast impersonal forces ; but I suspect that it is also largely determined by a few thousands , or ten thousands , of that period's finer per- sonalities , by a few dozens or hundreds ...
Now the stamp of any period may be largely moulded by vast impersonal forces ; but I suspect that it is also largely determined by a few thousands , or ten thousands , of that period's finer per- sonalities , by a few dozens or hundreds ...
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They interest us largely because of our interest in Johnson himself. For he is an exception to the general rule that writers often seem not only oddly different from their books, but also markedly inferior to their books.1 As Johnson ...
They interest us largely because of our interest in Johnson himself. For he is an exception to the general rule that writers often seem not only oddly different from their books, but also markedly inferior to their books.1 As Johnson ...
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And why , though his educational precepts sold so well after his death , did his own attempts to educate so largely fail ? First , why did Chesterfield take such a flatly opposite view to that later Whig peer , Lord Melbourne ...
And why , though his educational precepts sold so well after his death , did his own attempts to educate so largely fail ? First , why did Chesterfield take such a flatly opposite view to that later Whig peer , Lord Melbourne ...
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| Titlu | The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] Goldsmith |
| Autor | Frank Laurence Lucas |
| Ediție | 2 |
| Editor | Macmillan, 1958 |
| Exemplar original de la | Universitatea din Michigan |
| Scanată la | 23 oct. 2006 |
| Lungime | 354 pagini |
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