Letters, Sentences and MaximsChesterfield Society, 1991 - 348 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 109
Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield. frequently cover ? Many of them want common sense , many more common learning ; but , in general , they make up so much by their manner for those defects , that frequently they pass ...
Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield. frequently cover ? Many of them want common sense , many more common learning ; but , in general , they make up so much by their manner for those defects , that frequently they pass ...
Σελίδα 170
... common , appear less crim- inal ; though custom can never alter the nature of good and ill . Pray let no quibbles of lawyers , no refinements of casuists break into the plain notions of right and wrong which every man's right reason and ...
... common , appear less crim- inal ; though custom can never alter the nature of good and ill . Pray let no quibbles of lawyers , no refinements of casuists break into the plain notions of right and wrong which every man's right reason and ...
Σελίδα 201
... common sense nor common honesty in the world for these last fifteen hundred years ; but that they were totally extinguished with the ancient Greek and Roman governments . Homer and Virgil could have no faults , because they were ancient ...
... common sense nor common honesty in the world for these last fifteen hundred years ; but that they were totally extinguished with the ancient Greek and Roman governments . Homer and Virgil could have no faults , because they were ancient ...
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