The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithCassell, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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Pagina 42
... surely Age may become justly contemptible , if the Opportunities which it brings have past away without Improvement , and Vice appears to prevail when the Passions have subsided . The Wretch that , after having seen the Consequences of ...
... surely Age may become justly contemptible , if the Opportunities which it brings have past away without Improvement , and Vice appears to prevail when the Passions have subsided . The Wretch that , after having seen the Consequences of ...
Pagina 82
... surely with advantage , into pure science . Still , it may well be that most men ( especially intellectuals ) , remember too little , rather than too much , Johnson's principle of asking— ' What use in knowing that ? ' There are plenty ...
... surely with advantage , into pure science . Still , it may well be that most men ( especially intellectuals ) , remember too little , rather than too much , Johnson's principle of asking— ' What use in knowing that ? ' There are plenty ...
Pagina 151
... surely towards the red pit of the Revolution ? Was it by their graces that our own iron - sided Oliver , or the jack - booted Charles XII of Sweden , or the uncouth Tsar Peter , or the brusque , shabby , Frederick of Prussia , each in ...
... surely towards the red pit of the Revolution ? Was it by their graces that our own iron - sided Oliver , or the jack - booted Charles XII of Sweden , or the uncouth Tsar Peter , or the brusque , shabby , Frederick of Prussia , each in ...
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