| Tobias Smollett - 1810 - 580 páginas
...foremost as an essayist, justly admired for the dignity, strength, and variety of his style, as well a* for the agreeable manner in which he investigates...superfluity, we find a sublime system of ethics, an amazing knowledge and command of human nature. Many of the Greek and Roman classics made their appearance in... | |
| David Hume - 1810 - 576 páginas
...manner in which he irivestig.ms the human heart, tracing rvery interesting emotion, and opening all ihe sources of morality. The laudable aim of enlisting...superfluity, we find a sublime system of ethics, an amazing knowledge and command of human nature. Many of the Greek and Roman classics made their appearance In... | |
| Tobias Smollett, Robert Anderson - 1820 - 748 páginas
...ridiculed the follies of life, with equal strength, humour, and propriety. The laudable aim of inlisting the passions on the side of virtue was successfully...extraordinary ; where, mingled with much superfluity and impertinence, we find a sublime system of ethics, an amazing knowledge and command of human nature."... | |
| David Irving - 1821 - 336 páginas
...learning, stands foremost as an essayist, justly admired for the dignity, strength, and variety, of bis style, as well as for the agreeable manner in which...pursued by Richardson, in his Pamela, Clarissa, and Grandisson ; a species of writing equally new and extraordinary, where, mingled with much superfluity,... | |
| Tobias George [novels] Smollett - 1821 - 746 páginas
...Father of the English Novel. His historian, with equal candour, proceeds to tell his reader, that " the laudable aim of enlisting the passions on the...extraordinary, where, mingled with much superfluity and impertinence, we find a sublime system of ethics, an amazing knowledge and command of human nature."... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1822 - 486 páginas
...philosopher. Nor let us forget the merit conspicuous in the works of Campbell, remarkable for candour, intelligence, and precision. Johnson, inferior to...superfluity, we find a sublime system of ethics, an amazing knowledge and command of human nature. Many of the Greek and Roman classics made their appearance in... | |
| David Hume - 1825 - 486 páginas
...philosopher. Nor let us forget the merit, conspicuous in the works of Campbell, remarkable for candour, intelligence, and precision. Johnson, inferior to...pursued by Richardson, in his Pamela, Clarissa, and Grandisbn; a species of writing equally new and extraordinary, where, mingled with much superfluity,... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1825 - 554 páginas
...father of the English novel. The historian, with equal candour, proceeds to tell his reader, « that the laudable aim of enlisting the passions on the...extraordinary, where, mingled with much superfluity and impertinence, we find a sublime system of ethics, an amazing knowledge and command of human nature.»... | |
| Walter Scott - 1825 - 260 páginas
...father of the English novel. The historian, with equal candour, proceeds to te.ll his reader, " that the laudable aim of enlisting the passions on the...successfully pursued by Richardson in his Pamela, Clarissa,and Grahdison, a species of writing equally new and extraordinary, 'where, mingled with much... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1827 - 378 páginas
...inferior to none in philosophy, philology, poetry, and classical learning, stands foremost as 1760. an essayist, justly admired for the dignity, strength,...superfluity, we find a sublime system of ethics, an amazing knowledge and command of human nature. Many of the Greek and Roman classics made their appearance in... | |
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