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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... better things to the better men ? Is it not better to be modest than to be rich ? He admitted this . Why are you vexed then , man , when you possess the better thing ? Remember then always and have in readiness the truth , that this is ...
... better things to the better men ? Is it not better to be modest than to be rich ? He admitted this . Why are you vexed then , man , when you possess the better thing ? Remember then always and have in readiness the truth , that this is ...
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... better for a man quietly and peaceably to obey , than by laborious climbing up the craggy rocks of ambition to aspire to command and sovereignty ; and to set his foot rather upon the plain and humble ground than upon that slippery ...
... better for a man quietly and peaceably to obey , than by laborious climbing up the craggy rocks of ambition to aspire to command and sovereignty ; and to set his foot rather upon the plain and humble ground than upon that slippery ...
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... better than her unnatural sisters , and spoke of her father with affection after his death . There is too much reason to fear that heredity , as well as the many unhappy circumstances which surrounded that ill - starred family , may ...
... better than her unnatural sisters , and spoke of her father with affection after his death . There is too much reason to fear that heredity , as well as the many unhappy circumstances which surrounded that ill - starred family , may ...
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... better to put it in prose , or blank verse ; for ordinary discourse never shows so well in metre , as in the strain it may seem to be spoken in : the merit consists in doing it to the life . Surely , though the world think not so , he ...
... better to put it in prose , or blank verse ; for ordinary discourse never shows so well in metre , as in the strain it may seem to be spoken in : the merit consists in doing it to the life . Surely , though the world think not so , he ...
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... better , when he knows what others have said ; and sometimes the consciousness of his inward knowledge gives a confidence to his outward be- havior which is , of all other things , the best to grace a man in his carriage . Complete ...
... better , when he knows what others have said ; and sometimes the consciousness of his inward knowledge gives a confidence to his outward be- havior which is , of all other things , the best to grace a man in his carriage . Complete ...
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