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Pagina 34
Few men can have triumphed against heavier handi- caps . Even the deformed Pope was in some ways more fortunate than Johnson . Latin he had well flogged into him at school . But in the main , perhaps , he educated himself .
Few men can have triumphed against heavier handi- caps . Even the deformed Pope was in some ways more fortunate than Johnson . Latin he had well flogged into him at school . But in the main , perhaps , he educated himself .
Pagina 59
Yet , even so , the full extent of Johnson's capacity for rudeness will remain , perhaps , for ever unknown . For at Auchinleck he made some retort to Boswell's father which even Boswell could not bear , or dare , to record .
Yet , even so , the full extent of Johnson's capacity for rudeness will remain , perhaps , for ever unknown . For at Auchinleck he made some retort to Boswell's father which even Boswell could not bear , or dare , to record .
Pagina 342
True , the human race has become in some ways more humane ; yet our age has seen calculated atrocities on a vaster scale , perhaps , than ever before ; it has seen the civilized restraints of whole nations dissolve like snow in the lava ...
True , the human race has become in some ways more humane ; yet our age has seen calculated atrocities on a vaster scale , perhaps , than ever before ; it has seen the civilized restraints of whole nations dissolve like snow in the lava ...
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The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson ... Frank Laurence Lucas Vizualizare fragmente - 1958 |
The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson ... Frank Laurence Lucas Vizualizare fragmente - 1958 |
The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth Century Characters: Johnson ... Frank Laurence Lucas Vizualizare fragmente - 1961 |
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