The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithMacmillan, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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... 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 of its really original minds . The ...
... 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 of its really original minds . The ...
Pagina 83
... largely esprit d'escalier . No one , on the other hand , would claim that Johnson talked ' like an angel ' . But one might perhaps say that he talked ' like a demon ' . For few things are as amazing about him as that gift of extempore ...
... largely esprit d'escalier . No one , on the other hand , would claim that Johnson talked ' like an angel ' . But one might perhaps say that he talked ' like a demon ' . For few things are as amazing about him as that gift of extempore ...
Pagina 146
... largely fail ? First , why did Chesterfield take such a flatly opposite view to that later Whig peer , Lord Melbourne , who opined that it is boring to be educated , boring to educate , and boring to talk about educa- tion ? Ultimately ...
... largely fail ? First , why did Chesterfield take such a flatly opposite view to that later Whig peer , Lord Melbourne , who opined that it is boring to be educated , boring to educate , and boring to talk about educa- tion ? Ultimately ...
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