The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth Century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] Goldsmith |
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And my motive is not merely that curiosity which provides the only impulse for much history and much science . ... He has recorded a curious example of futile investigation in Dr and Mrs Kennedy , who were living in Derbyshire about ...
And my motive is not merely that curiosity which provides the only impulse for much history and much science . ... He has recorded a curious example of futile investigation in Dr and Mrs Kennedy , who were living in Derbyshire about ...
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To be curious about nothing is to be nearly dead ; to be curious about too few things , is to be narrow ; to be curious about too many , is to be shallow . The kind of generalknowledge questions beloved by some schoolmasters and ...
To be curious about nothing is to be nearly dead ; to be curious about too few things , is to be narrow ; to be curious about too many , is to be shallow . The kind of generalknowledge questions beloved by some schoolmasters and ...
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There is a curious similarity between Queeney Thrale's warning to her mother ( January 1783 ) about marrying Piozzi— ' You are going you know not whither , I believe ' -- and the Duchess's ...
There is a curious similarity between Queeney Thrale's warning to her mother ( January 1783 ) about marrying Piozzi— ' You are going you know not whither , I believe ' -- and the Duchess's ...
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The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson ... Frank Laurence Lucas Vizualizare fragmente - 1958 |
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