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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... virtue as time out of mind have made virtuousness seem a little ... well , improbable . They are quite without real vision ; it never seems to occur to them that there may be a larger , wiser , better world than their own . They had to ...
... virtue as time out of mind have made virtuousness seem a little ... well , improbable . They are quite without real vision ; it never seems to occur to them that there may be a larger , wiser , better world than their own . They had to ...
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... virtue ; in Sheridan false virtue must be craftily exposed , put into the dock , and condemned . Even in the realm of manners one feels a difference : Congreve reveals them , lightly , casually , for what they are ; Sheridan scores them ...
... virtue ; in Sheridan false virtue must be craftily exposed , put into the dock , and condemned . Even in the realm of manners one feels a difference : Congreve reveals them , lightly , casually , for what they are ; Sheridan scores them ...
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... virtue was a word in the mouth of those who discredited it . " Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice , " wrote Walpole with prevail- ing cynicism . It would be foolish to look for exalted emo- tions in such ...
... virtue was a word in the mouth of those who discredited it . " Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice , " wrote Walpole with prevail- ing cynicism . It would be foolish to look for exalted emo- tions in such ...
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