The Art of Living: Four Eighteenth-century Minds: Hume, Horace Walpole, Burke [and] Benjamin FranklinMacmillan, 1959 - 285 páginas |
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... writer . Further , philosophic writers often cannot write . There is justice in the ironic comment of Schopenhauer ( who could ) : ' Doubtless had Hume lived till our day he would have improved his style , and thrown aside terseness and ...
... writer . Further , philosophic writers often cannot write . There is justice in the ironic comment of Schopenhauer ( who could ) : ' Doubtless had Hume lived till our day he would have improved his style , and thrown aside terseness and ...
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... write than men ' ; and again — ' It is the fair part of creation which excells in that province ... orators write affectedly , ministers obscurely , poets floridly , learned men pedantically , and soldiers tolerably , when they can ...
... write than men ' ; and again — ' It is the fair part of creation which excells in that province ... orators write affectedly , ministers obscurely , poets floridly , learned men pedantically , and soldiers tolerably , when they can ...
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... writing them even once were not grind enough . Even so , it must have needed no little energy to write some four thousand letters , then to become one's own archivist , and keep them from falling into the chaos which quickly threatens ...
... writing them even once were not grind enough . Even so , it must have needed no little energy to write some four thousand letters , then to become one's own archivist , and keep them from falling into the chaos which quickly threatens ...
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David Hume PAGE I | 1 |
Horace Walpole | 79 |
Edmund Burke | 129 |
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