Samuel Johnson and His TimesArco Publishing Company, 1963 - 128 страници |
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... experience of total war we may be inclined to look back nostalgically on the relatively polite and restrained wars of the eighteenth century , fought with good manners and limited objec- tives . Gibbon sometimes makes a complacent ...
... experience of total war we may be inclined to look back nostalgically on the relatively polite and restrained wars of the eighteenth century , fought with good manners and limited objec- tives . Gibbon sometimes makes a complacent ...
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... experience of life , and to identify himself closely with the men he writes about , sharing their problems and emotions . He achieved perfection in his early life of Savage , and came near to it again in parts of his Life of Swift . As ...
... experience of life , and to identify himself closely with the men he writes about , sharing their problems and emotions . He achieved perfection in his early life of Savage , and came near to it again in parts of his Life of Swift . As ...
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... experience and reflection into memorable words . Because readers have felt these sayings to be a helpful guide to living , several collections of them have been made since his death.1 When his work is excerpted and rearranged suitably ...
... experience and reflection into memorable words . Because readers have felt these sayings to be a helpful guide to living , several collections of them have been made since his death.1 When his work is excerpted and rearranged suitably ...
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