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... I remember that when I came from Cambridge , I had acquired among the pedants of an illiberal seminary a sauciness of literature , a turn to satire and contempt , and a strong tendency to argumentation and contradiction .
... I remember that when I came from Cambridge , I had acquired among the pedants of an illiberal seminary a sauciness of literature , a turn to satire and contempt , and a strong tendency to argumentation and contradiction .
Pagina 190
I am really pleased with myself ; words come skipping to me like lambs upon Moffat Hill ; and I turn my periods smoothly and imperceptibly like a skilful wheelwright a turning tops in a turning - loom . There's fancy 190 BOSWELL.
I am really pleased with myself ; words come skipping to me like lambs upon Moffat Hill ; and I turn my periods smoothly and imperceptibly like a skilful wheelwright a turning tops in a turning - loom . There's fancy 190 BOSWELL.
Pagina 308
1 Montesquieu and Goldsmith are as different as that sun of the Midi which flashes down on the dryness of pointed limestone and darting lizard , from the sun of Leinster that silvers fitfully the flow of Shannon , and turns only greener ...
1 Montesquieu and Goldsmith are as different as that sun of the Midi which flashes down on the dryness of pointed limestone and darting lizard , from the sun of Leinster that silvers fitfully the flow of Shannon , and turns only greener ...
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The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson ... Frank Laurence Lucas Vizualizare fragmente - 1958 |
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