The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth Century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithMacmillan, 1961 - 354 pagini |
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... truth ; but the whole truth - never . Even Montaigne sometimes misleads ; even Rousseau , though unblushing in his exhibitionism , is quite untrustworthy . Pepys , indeed , and Boswell , journalizing for themselves alone , do convince ...
... truth ; but the whole truth - never . Even Montaigne sometimes misleads ; even Rousseau , though unblushing in his exhibitionism , is quite untrustworthy . Pepys , indeed , and Boswell , journalizing for themselves alone , do convince ...
Pagina 244
... truth is that it is owing to the cloudy darkness of my own mind ' ( March 20 , 1778 ) . The real truth is , perhaps , that Boswell was a Romantic born before his time . How- ever these jaunts usually contrived to replenish his ' stock ...
... truth is that it is owing to the cloudy darkness of my own mind ' ( March 20 , 1778 ) . The real truth is , perhaps , that Boswell was a Romantic born before his time . How- ever these jaunts usually contrived to replenish his ' stock ...
Pagina 271
... truth . But though it should tell nothing but the truth , it cannot possibly tell the whole truth . It must select , or die of its own unwieldy corpulence . The thoughts of a single day might burst a whole vol- ume of autobiography ...
... truth . But though it should tell nothing but the truth , it cannot possibly tell the whole truth . It must select , or die of its own unwieldy corpulence . The thoughts of a single day might burst a whole vol- ume of autobiography ...
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Lord Chesterfield | 129 |
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