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These qualities , if he had been a man of sense and virtue , would scarcely of themselves have sufficed to make him conspicuous ; but 1 In 1776 he wrote on this theme a poem even more excruciating than usual : On a sure basis British ...
These qualities , if he had been a man of sense and virtue , would scarcely of themselves have sufficed to make him conspicuous ; but 1 In 1776 he wrote on this theme a poem even more excruciating than usual : On a sure basis British ...
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They might have served human happiness better , had they thought and taught more about sense , and less about ' sin ' . There have , indeed , been partial exceptions like Apollo of Delphi with his ' Know thyself ' and ' Nothing too much ...
They might have served human happiness better , had they thought and taught more about sense , and less about ' sin ' . There have , indeed , been partial exceptions like Apollo of Delphi with his ' Know thyself ' and ' Nothing too much ...
Pagina 347
If Boswell is more than a pathetic figure of fun , it is largely because , though so often senseless himself , he tirelessly pursued good sense and intellectual distinction in others . If Chesterfield , too prone to mistake cleverness ...
If Boswell is more than a pathetic figure of fun , it is largely because , though so often senseless himself , he tirelessly pursued good sense and intellectual distinction in others . If Chesterfield , too prone to mistake cleverness ...
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The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson ... Frank Laurence Lucas Vizualizare fragmente - 1958 |
The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson ... Frank Laurence Lucas Vizualizare fragmente - 1958 |
The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson ... Frank Laurence Lucas Vizualizare fragmente - 1958 |
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