Goldsmith
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Oliver Goldsmith
in the texts
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Oliver Goldsmith, author of The Citizen of the World, whose fictional Chinese correspondent voices contemporary complacent attitudes toward English law.
Goldsmith, in his Citizen of the World, has precisely reproduced the tone of his day.
The feebleness of our Chinaman’s, or rather of Goldsmith’s, reasoning adds to its significance.
The Rights of War and Peace
Writer whose Chinese Letters are referenced in the Library.
Montesquieu and Goldsmith are drawn on for their Persian and Chinese Letters.