The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth Century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithMacmillan, 1961 - 354 pagini |
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Pagina 316
... perhaps , than it has been felt ' ( though he adds , ' however , it is a very fine one ' ) . I must own , indeed , that I have doubts even about that— Alexander's Feast seems to me as brassy as the most strident of military bands . Perhaps ...
... perhaps , than it has been felt ' ( though he adds , ' however , it is a very fine one ' ) . I must own , indeed , that I have doubts even about that— Alexander's Feast seems to me as brassy as the most strident of military bands . Perhaps ...
Pagina 342
... perhaps , than ever before ; it has seen the civilized restraints of whole nations dissolve like snow in the lava of fanati- cism . If men are too emotional , it is not clear that the cure lies in appeals to emotion . The need is not ...
... perhaps , than ever before ; it has seen the civilized restraints of whole nations dissolve like snow in the lava of fanati- cism . If men are too emotional , it is not clear that the cure lies in appeals to emotion . The need is not ...
Pagina 347
... perhaps because they thought less of happiness , and more of a disinterested pursuit of reason and truth ; so that happiness , or content , came more to them , in the way it often does , as a by - product . It is idle guessing the ...
... perhaps because they thought less of happiness , and more of a disinterested pursuit of reason and truth ; so that happiness , or content , came more to them , in the way it often does , as a by - product . It is idle guessing the ...
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