The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth Century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithMacmillan, 1961 - 354 pagini |
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... largely moulded by vast impersonal forces ; but I suspect that it is also largely determined by a few thousands , or ten thousands , of that period's finer per- sonalities , by a few dozens or hundreds of its really original minds . The ...
... largely moulded by vast impersonal forces ; but I suspect that it is also largely determined by a few thousands , or ten thousands , of that period's finer per- sonalities , by a few dozens or hundreds of its really original minds . The ...
Pagina 146
... largely fail ? First , why did Chesterfield take such a flatly opposite view to that later Whig peer , Lord Melbourne , who opined that it is boring to be educated , boring to educate , and boring to talk about educa- tion ? Ultimately ...
... largely fail ? First , why did Chesterfield take such a flatly opposite view to that later Whig peer , Lord Melbourne , who opined that it is boring to be educated , boring to educate , and boring to talk about educa- tion ? Ultimately ...
Pagina 347
... largely because , though so often senseless himself , he tirelessly pursued good sense and in- tellectual distinction in others . If Chesterfield , too prone to mistake cleverness for wisdom , is more warning than example , still the ...
... largely because , though so often senseless himself , he tirelessly pursued good sense and in- tellectual distinction in others . If Chesterfield , too prone to mistake cleverness for wisdom , is more warning than example , still the ...
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