The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth Century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithMacmillan, 1961 - 354 pagini |
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... doubt , for billions of bare facts . Yet how bare are bare facts ! The living interest lies far less in facts than in ideas , in minds , in personalities . Yet can we hope really to grasp the minds of the dead ? We stand frustrated like ...
... doubt , for billions of bare facts . Yet how bare are bare facts ! The living interest lies far less in facts than in ideas , in minds , in personalities . Yet can we hope really to grasp the minds of the dead ? We stand frustrated like ...
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... doubt , partly dis- interested , but not without a touch of self - importance . As Words- worth bound The White Doe in quarto to show how much he thought of it , so at times Johnson liked to speak his thoughts in polysyllables to show ...
... doubt , partly dis- interested , but not without a touch of self - importance . As Words- worth bound The White Doe in quarto to show how much he thought of it , so at times Johnson liked to speak his thoughts in polysyllables to show ...
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... doubt . But that cry has been reiterated for thousands of years by now . The results seem hardly adequate . True , the human race has become in some ways more humane ; yet our age has seen calculated atrocities on a vaster scale ...
... doubt . But that cry has been reiterated for thousands of years by now . The results seem hardly adequate . True , the human race has become in some ways more humane ; yet our age has seen calculated atrocities on a vaster scale ...
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The EighteenthCentury Mind PAGE | 1 |
Johnson | 25 |
Lord Chesterfield | 129 |
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