Kings & Desperate Men: Life in Eighteenth-century EnglandA. A. Knopf, 1942 - 323 sivua Life in eighteenth century England in the time of the French Revolution. |
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... human ideas and emotions , and seeks to portray human beings as truthfully as possible . Perhaps the book's character can be best summed up as concrete rather than abstract , descriptive rather than analytical . 24-23-42 Certain things ...
... human ideas and emotions , and seeks to portray human beings as truthfully as possible . Perhaps the book's character can be best summed up as concrete rather than abstract , descriptive rather than analytical . 24-23-42 Certain things ...
Sivu 125
... Human action , human emotion , human suffering in the large sense are things they can scarcely understand , let alone try to express . Sir Roger de Coverley with his good impulses at the mercy of his class feeling , is as near as these ...
... Human action , human emotion , human suffering in the large sense are things they can scarcely understand , let alone try to express . Sir Roger de Coverley with his good impulses at the mercy of his class feeling , is as near as these ...
Sivu 303
... human intelligence . - Sterne , wrapped up in himself , was if one takes the most cynical view - too anxious to seem like a good man to care very much about the rest of the world . Lacking both a noble nature and a rebellious mind , he ...
... human intelligence . - Sterne , wrapped up in himself , was if one takes the most cynical view - too anxious to seem like a good man to care very much about the rest of the world . Lacking both a noble nature and a rebellious mind , he ...
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