The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithCassell, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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... ideas , in minds , in personalities . Yet can we hope really to grasp the minds of the dead ? We stand frustrated like Æneas , face to face in burning Troy with the phantom of the wife he loved : Ter conatus ibi collo dare bracchia ...
... ideas , in minds , in personalities . Yet can we hope really to grasp the minds of the dead ? We stand frustrated like Æneas , face to face in burning Troy with the phantom of the wife he loved : Ter conatus ibi collo dare bracchia ...
Pagina 65
... ideas on mechanics . He jeered at the idea of a machine on which one could propel oneself along the road , as fundamentally preposterous . " Then , Sir , what is gained is , the man has his choice whether he will move himself , or ...
... ideas on mechanics . He jeered at the idea of a machine on which one could propel oneself along the road , as fundamentally preposterous . " Then , Sir , what is gained is , the man has his choice whether he will move himself , or ...
Pagina 67
... ideas do not seem more than a blend of prejudices , commonsense , and ( sometimes ) humanity ; just as his religious ideas seem largely a blend of forlorn hope and nightmare . Of the arts Johnson knew little , apart from literature ...
... ideas do not seem more than a blend of prejudices , commonsense , and ( sometimes ) humanity ; just as his religious ideas seem largely a blend of forlorn hope and nightmare . Of the arts Johnson knew little , apart from literature ...
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The EighteenthCentury Mind PAGE I | 1 |
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Lord Chesterfield | 129 |
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