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But at least this piece of commonsense seems to me far nearer the general truth than the blundering logic and rambling abstrac- tions with which the question was debated a generation later , at unconscionable length , by Wordsworth and ...
But at least this piece of commonsense seems to me far nearer the general truth than the blundering logic and rambling abstrac- tions with which the question was debated a generation later , at unconscionable length , by Wordsworth and ...
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Further , Chesterfield's idea of education seems absurdly narrow . It is not merely that it ignores the love of nature and the knowledge of science ; it is rather that it takes as the object of life , not happiness , nor giving ...
Further , Chesterfield's idea of education seems absurdly narrow . It is not merely that it ignores the love of nature and the knowledge of science ; it is rather that it takes as the object of life , not happiness , nor giving ...
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... an unsafe companion who never scrupled to repay the most liberal hospitality by the basest violation of confidence , a man without delicacy , without shame ' ( this seems to me most untrue ) , ' without sense enough to know when he ...
... an unsafe companion who never scrupled to repay the most liberal hospitality by the basest violation of confidence , a man without delicacy , without shame ' ( this seems to me most untrue ) , ' without sense enough to know when he ...
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The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson ... Frank Laurence Lucas Vizualizare fragmente - 1958 |
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