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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... . He became the leading classical scholar of Northern Europe , and he used his knowledge with high intelligence to force northern Europe away from a barbarism which , as it distinguished the general life 1651 ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS C 1465- ...
... . He became the leading classical scholar of Northern Europe , and he used his knowledge with high intelligence to force northern Europe away from a barbarism which , as it distinguished the general life 1651 ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS C 1465- ...
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... forces which evolved the Shakespearean cycle of poets , that on this account , if no other , he would deserve the most careful study . But for those who have listened long to the tumult of discourse » from great nineteenth - century ...
... forces which evolved the Shakespearean cycle of poets , that on this account , if no other , he would deserve the most careful study . But for those who have listened long to the tumult of discourse » from great nineteenth - century ...
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... forces him to be ever a - bor- rowing ; in the one , a man shows judgment ; in the other , read- ing and in my opinion it is a greater commendation to say that one is wise than that one is well read . So far I will honor knowl- ― edge ...
... forces him to be ever a - bor- rowing ; in the one , a man shows judgment ; in the other , read- ing and in my opinion it is a greater commendation to say that one is wise than that one is well read . So far I will honor knowl- ― edge ...
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... force than what the eye can see ; and this , too , is more powerful at one time than at another . The same man that has now welcomed me with a free expression of love and courtesy , at another time has left me unsaluted at all . Yet ...
... force than what the eye can see ; and this , too , is more powerful at one time than at another . The same man that has now welcomed me with a free expression of love and courtesy , at another time has left me unsaluted at all . Yet ...
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... force . Neglect an enemy , but condemn him not . Contempt unbridles fear , and makes us both to will , to dare , and to execute . So Lip- sius has it : Contemptus excutit timoris frænum , et efficit , ut non velis solum , sed audeas ...
... force . Neglect an enemy , but condemn him not . Contempt unbridles fear , and makes us both to will , to dare , and to execute . So Lip- sius has it : Contemptus excutit timoris frænum , et efficit , ut non velis solum , sed audeas ...
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