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To call a quality ' typical ' may mean either that it is common among people or things of a given kind ( as good humour seems typical of the English ) ; or it may mean merely that this quality is less uncommon there than elsewhere .
To call a quality ' typical ' may mean either that it is common among people or things of a given kind ( as good humour seems typical of the English ) ; or it may mean merely that this quality is less uncommon there than elsewhere .
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... yet so scornful of the inhuman curiosity of the mere pedant , that Johnson has himself remained so interesting to his fellow human beings . Curiously enough , Wordsworth with all his stress on contact with common ...
... yet so scornful of the inhuman curiosity of the mere pedant , that Johnson has himself remained so interesting to his fellow human beings . Curiously enough , Wordsworth with all his stress on contact with common ...
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We may have reached , here and there , a century of the common man ; but who cares about anything so dull as a century of common sense ? It has been propounded by an authoritative critic of our day that “ there may be a good deal to be ...
We may have reached , here and there , a century of the common man ; but who cares about anything so dull as a century of common sense ? It has been propounded by an authoritative critic of our day that “ there may be a good deal to be ...
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The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson ... Frank Laurence Lucas Vizualizare fragmente - 1958 |
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