The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithMacmillan, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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Pagina 157
... nature . This is the most im- portant part of Chesterfield's teaching ; but perhaps its least engaging part . Men are to be despised and flattered ; women are to be despised , flattered , and , if young enough , flirted with . Princes ...
... nature . This is the most im- portant part of Chesterfield's teaching ; but perhaps its least engaging part . Men are to be despised and flattered ; women are to be despised , flattered , and , if young enough , flirted with . Princes ...
Pagina 164
... Nature's laws , it was found , were miraculously uniform ; it was perhaps not unnatural , though quite irrational , to assume that Nature's products were uniform also . ' One blade of grass is like another blade of grass . ' In one ...
... Nature's laws , it was found , were miraculously uniform ; it was perhaps not unnatural , though quite irrational , to assume that Nature's products were uniform also . ' One blade of grass is like another blade of grass . ' In one ...
Pagina 294
... Nature are readable to - day . For even in his pot - boiling Goldsmith remains himself — a man 1 According to Prior , for example , the two hundred and forty octavo pages of the Life of Nash occupied five weeks , and earned only ...
... Nature are readable to - day . For even in his pot - boiling Goldsmith remains himself — a man 1 According to Prior , for example , the two hundred and forty octavo pages of the Life of Nash occupied five weeks , and earned only ...
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