Peter's Letters to His KinsfolkScottish Academic Press, 1977 - 204 strán (strany) |
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... object or congregation of objects , which can be said to have any wide and commanding grasp of the general attention . The Church - the Univer- sity - even my own celebrated Faculty , in this its great seat of empire – all are no better ...
... object or congregation of objects , which can be said to have any wide and commanding grasp of the general attention . The Church - the Univer- sity - even my own celebrated Faculty , in this its great seat of empire – all are no better ...
Strana 80
... object is merely to make the author look foolish ; and he prostitutes his own fine talents , to enable the common herd of his readers to suppose themselves looking down from the vantage - ground of superior intellect , upon the poor ...
... object is merely to make the author look foolish ; and he prostitutes his own fine talents , to enable the common herd of his readers to suppose themselves looking down from the vantage - ground of superior intellect , upon the poor ...
Strana 104
... object was to support the credit of its own appearance . It praised only where praise was extorted - and it never praised even the highest efforts of contem- porary genius , in the spirit of true and genuine earnestness , which might ...
... object was to support the credit of its own appearance . It praised only where praise was extorted - and it never praised even the highest efforts of contem- porary genius , in the spirit of true and genuine earnestness , which might ...
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Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk John Gibson Lockhart,Association for Scottish Literary Studies Zobrazenie úryvkov - 1977 |
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