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Such doubts apply particularly to that generalizing kind of history which tries to seize the spirit of a whole period . No two individuals since the human race began have ever been exactly alike ; great men are still less like their ...
Such doubts apply particularly to that generalizing kind of history which tries to seize the spirit of a whole period . No two individuals since the human race began have ever been exactly alike ; great men are still less like their ...
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He was the laughing - stock of the whole of that brilliant society . . . . ' ( Yet Margaret Boswell gave him her heart , Johnson loved him , Reynolds was fond of him , the Club elected him . ) ' He was always laying himself at the feet ...
He was the laughing - stock of the whole of that brilliant society . . . . ' ( Yet Margaret Boswell gave him her heart , Johnson loved him , Reynolds was fond of him , the Club elected him . ) ' He was always laying himself at the feet ...
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But though it should tell nothing but the truth , it cannot possibly tell the whole truth . It must select , or die of its own unwieldy corpulence . The thoughts of a single day might burst a whole vol- ume of autobiography ; sufficient ...
But though it should tell nothing but the truth , it cannot possibly tell the whole truth . It must select , or die of its own unwieldy corpulence . The thoughts of a single day might burst a whole vol- ume of autobiography ; sufficient ...
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The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson ... Frank Laurence Lucas Vizualizare fragmente - 1958 |
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