Kings & Desperate Men: Life in Eighteenth-century EnglandLife in eighteenth century England in the time of the French Revolution. |
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The sum of all his preaching is that only wisdom and virtue should have any credit in the world ; the sum of all his experience is that wisdom and virtue barely exist . He might exempt from his harsh indictment an Esther Johnson or an ...
The sum of all his preaching is that only wisdom and virtue should have any credit in the world ; the sum of all his experience is that wisdom and virtue barely exist . He might exempt from his harsh indictment an Esther Johnson or an ...
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In Congreve it would be enough to portray false 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 ...
In Congreve it would be enough to portray false 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 ...
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“ Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice , " wrote Walpole with prevailing cynicism . It would be foolish to look for exalted emotions in such a man . It is not that he was evil or insensitive ; it is rather ...
“ Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice , " wrote Walpole with prevailing cynicism . It would be foolish to look for exalted emotions in such a man . It is not that he was evil or insensitive ; it is rather ...
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