 | 1910 - 872 pages
...country or another. Let us, if we do talk, talk about something; men and women are my subject of enquiry; tanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance However, Johnson was certainly not insensible to the beauty of nature. In describing his emotions at... | |
 | Rainer Schulte, John Biguenet - 1992 - 264 pages
...very aptly: "A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another. . . . Men and women are my subjects of inquiry; let us see...how these differ from those we have left behind." Dr. Johnson's words convey two thoughts, and both foretell the dual road the modern age was to follow.... | |
 | Franco Ferrarotti - 2003 - 174 pages
...grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another [...] Men and women are my subject of inquiry; let us see how these differ from those we have left behind". [...] Le monde cesse d'étre un monde, une indivisible totalité [...] Pluralité des langues et des... | |
 | Hesther Lynch Piozzi - 2006 - 302 pages
...immediately to our eyesight must acknowledge he was not in the wrong. He delighted no more in music than in painting; he was almost as deaf as he was blind; travelling...how these differ from those we have left behind." When we were at Rouen together, he took a great fancy to the Abbe Roffette, with whom he conversed... | |
 | Hesther Lynch Piozzi - 2000 - 270 pages
...or another : let us if we do talk, talk about something; men and women are my subjects of enquiry; let us see how these differ from those we have left behind." When we were at Rouen together, he took a great fancy to the Abbe" Roffette, with whom he conversed... | |
 | 1910 - 940 pages
...country or another. Let us, if we do talk, talk about something; men and women are my subject of enquiry; let us see how these differ from those we have left behind." However, Johnson was certainly not insensible to the beauty of nature. In describing his emotions at... | |
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England and France affords a man. But when he wished to point them out to his companion: "Never heed such nonsense," would be the reply; "a blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another. Let us, if we DO talk, talk about... 
