The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volumen5David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler F.P. Kaiser, 1900 - 4190 páginas |
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... become ourselves divine ? These questions Epictetus answered very simply , and at least as satisfactorily as they have been answered by any one else . To him there is nothing good but God and the will of God . For us happiness and every ...
... become ourselves divine ? These questions Epictetus answered very simply , and at least as satisfactorily as they have been answered by any one else . To him there is nothing good but God and the will of God . For us happiness and every ...
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... become dejected , or sink in spirit , at the loss or want of them . Now , according to this rule , if a wise man chance to have the statues or images of his ancestors , or other renowned persons of former ages , he will be very far from ...
... become dejected , or sink in spirit , at the loss or want of them . Now , according to this rule , if a wise man chance to have the statues or images of his ancestors , or other renowned persons of former ages , he will be very far from ...
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... becomes of it . For to propagate vanity even beyond death is the highest madness ; and not much inferior thereto is the fancy of some , who in their lives are afraid to have their carcasses torn by the teeth of wild beasts after their ...
... becomes of it . For to propagate vanity even beyond death is the highest madness ; and not much inferior thereto is the fancy of some , who in their lives are afraid to have their carcasses torn by the teeth of wild beasts after their ...
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... become civilized to all his employments . Can we look on the prodigious quantity of liquor , which one poor wounded birch will produce in a few hours , and not be as- tonished ? Is it not wonderful that some trees should , in a short ...
... become civilized to all his employments . Can we look on the prodigious quantity of liquor , which one poor wounded birch will produce in a few hours , and not be as- tonished ? Is it not wonderful that some trees should , in a short ...
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... becoming virtue that ever came from him . All the noble deeds which have been achieved through successive ages have ... become his own confounder : for when man mistrusts God , it is just with God to leave man . Themistocles compared a ...
... becoming virtue that ever came from him . All the noble deeds which have been achieved through successive ages have ... become his own confounder : for when man mistrusts God , it is just with God to leave man . Themistocles compared a ...
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