Selected Essays of William Hazlitt, 1778-1830Nonesuch Press, 1948 - 807 páginas |
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... French are accused of promising more than they perform . That may be , and yet they may perform as many good - natured acts as the English , if the latter are as averse to perform as they are to promise . Even the professions of the French ...
... French are accused of promising more than they perform . That may be , and yet they may perform as many good - natured acts as the English , if the latter are as averse to perform as they are to promise . Even the professions of the French ...
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... French grace is not better than English awkwardness - a French cook if all sauces are alike - a French blacklegs if all throws are equal on the dice ? It is curious that the French nation restrict rigid rules and fixed principles to ...
... French grace is not better than English awkwardness - a French cook if all sauces are alike - a French blacklegs if all throws are equal on the dice ? It is curious that the French nation restrict rigid rules and fixed principles to ...
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... French to all verbal professions of wisdom or virtue ; and its existence can only be accounted for from that astonishing and tyrannical predominance which words exercise over things in the mind of every Frenchman . The École des Femmes ...
... French to all verbal professions of wisdom or virtue ; and its existence can only be accounted for from that astonishing and tyrannical predominance which words exercise over things in the mind of every Frenchman . The École des Femmes ...
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On the Love of the Country | 3 |
On the Ignorance of the Learned | 13 |
On Living to Onesself | 24 |
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