Essays and Dialogues of Giacomo LeopardiTrübner, 1882 - 216 pages |
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... knowledge , and sympathy ; qualities which must concur to make a successful biogra- pher . " - Pall Mall Gazette . " This is an admirable book . It lacks no quality that a biography ought to have . Its method is excellent , its theme is ...
... knowledge , and sympathy ; qualities which must concur to make a successful biogra- pher . " - Pall Mall Gazette . " This is an admirable book . It lacks no quality that a biography ought to have . Its method is excellent , its theme is ...
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... knowledge ; and when only eight years old , he discarded the Greek grammar he had hitherto used , and deliberately set himself the task of reading in chronological order the Greek authors of his father's library . It was due to his own ...
... knowledge ; and when only eight years old , he discarded the Greek grammar he had hitherto used , and deliberately set himself the task of reading in chronological order the Greek authors of his father's library . It was due to his own ...
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... knowledge , which Goethe has called " the antipodes of faith , " enabled him to perceive that Roman Catholicism , the antidote which he then prescribed for superstition , was itself full charged with the poison he sought to destroy . In ...
... knowledge , which Goethe has called " the antipodes of faith , " enabled him to perceive that Roman Catholicism , the antidote which he then prescribed for superstition , was itself full charged with the poison he sought to destroy . In ...
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... knowledge of it has determined me to take this step , to escape the self - contemplation which so disgusts me . So long as I possessed self - esteem I was prudent ; but now that I despise myself , I can only find relief by casting ...
... knowledge of it has determined me to take this step , to escape the self - contemplation which so disgusts me . So long as I possessed self - esteem I was prudent ; but now that I despise myself , I can only find relief by casting ...
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... shown us that the more vividly we realise the evils that surround and affect us , so much the more keenly do they arouse in us sensations of pain . Knowledge of them makes us suffer from them . The bliss BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH . Xxxvii.
... shown us that the more vividly we realise the evils that surround and affect us , so much the more keenly do they arouse in us sensations of pain . Knowledge of them makes us suffer from them . The bliss BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH . Xxxvii.
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