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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... Genius and Clothes GELLIUS , AULUS A Rule for Husbands Second Century A. D. 1873 The Reply of Chrysippus to Those Who Denied a Providence Three Reasons Assigned by Philosophers for the Punishment of Crimes He Who Has Much Must ...
... Genius and Clothes GELLIUS , AULUS A Rule for Husbands Second Century A. D. 1873 The Reply of Chrysippus to Those Who Denied a Providence Three Reasons Assigned by Philosophers for the Punishment of Crimes He Who Has Much Must ...
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... genius , capable of giving fitting expression to his ideas . What these ideas were we know not only from the fragments of his books , but from his disciples among whom were some of the most celebrated writers of the Greek and Roman ...
... genius , capable of giving fitting expression to his ideas . What these ideas were we know not only from the fragments of his books , but from his disciples among whom were some of the most celebrated writers of the Greek and Roman ...
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... genius . Talent we have always with us , but it is not often in the course of the centuries that young writers , or old ones either , can get rid of the perpetual self - consciousness which shuts out the influx of such varied knowledge ...
... genius . Talent we have always with us , but it is not often in the course of the centuries that young writers , or old ones either , can get rid of the perpetual self - consciousness which shuts out the influx of such varied knowledge ...
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... genius is be- yond industrious study . Wisdom is no inheritance ; no , not to the greatest clerks . Men commonly write more formally than they practice ; and conversing only with books , they fall into affectation and pedantry . He who ...
... genius is be- yond industrious study . Wisdom is no inheritance ; no , not to the greatest clerks . Men commonly write more formally than they practice ; and conversing only with books , they fall into affectation and pedantry . He who ...
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... genius of the mind , they then work in vain ; but when the flatteries of others shall join with the great flatterer , a man's self , he is then in the way to be wrought upon . It is true there is sometimes a self - constancy which is ...
... genius of the mind , they then work in vain ; but when the flatteries of others shall join with the great flatterer , a man's self , he is then in the way to be wrought upon . It is true there is sometimes a self - constancy which is ...
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