Friendship [ Social interaction / Character / Feelings & Emotions ]
… ideal friendship on the basis that it stood opposed to Christian benevolence. This was the problem confronted by Samuel Johnson when he discussed the nature of friendship with the Quaker Mary Knowles. Seeing the Quaker usage of the word … of Richardson’s seminal novel, naturally differed greatly in its benefits and its means of expression from that between Johnson and Boswell. Ultimately, the most remarkable fact about friendship in eighteenth-century Britain may not be its … de Montaigne, ‘On Friendship’, in Essays, trad. J. M. Cohen (London: Penguin, 1958), p. 101. 4 . James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1980], ed. R. W. Chapman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), p. 946. Partager Partager sur Facebook …
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