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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... greatest thinkers of the Stoic school , was born at Hierapolis in Phrygia in the first century after Christ . The date of his birth is not known , but it is put by some between 40 and 50 A. D. Little or nothing is known of his life , ex ...
... greatest thinkers of the Stoic school , was born at Hierapolis in Phrygia in the first century after Christ . The date of his birth is not known , but it is put by some between 40 and 50 A. D. Little or nothing is known of his life , ex ...
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... greatest possible interest . Critics are divided on their theories of his methods as a diarist . Some assert with confidence that " he had no thought of publication » ; others are equally confident that after having found the advantage ...
... greatest possible interest . Critics are divided on their theories of his methods as a diarist . Some assert with confidence that " he had no thought of publication » ; others are equally confident that after having found the advantage ...
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... greatest of English moralists . He owes to Bacon as much as Earle and Fuller do to Theo- phrastus , but no more , however , for his is one of those rare intel- lects whose thronging imaginations impel expression without any other effort ...
... greatest of English moralists . He owes to Bacon as much as Earle and Fuller do to Theo- phrastus , but no more , however , for his is one of those rare intel- lects whose thronging imaginations impel expression without any other effort ...
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... greatest coward in absence ; but the coward is never valiant , but then . There is nothing argues Na- ture more degenerate than her secretly repining at another's merits . Indeed , it is difficult to speak of a man truly , as he is ...
... greatest coward in absence ; but the coward is never valiant , but then . There is nothing argues Na- ture more degenerate than her secretly repining at another's merits . Indeed , it is difficult to speak of a man truly , as he is ...
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... greatest clerks . Men commonly write more formally than they practice ; and conversing only with books , they fall into affectation and pedantry . He who is made up of the press and the pen shall be sure to be ridiculous . Company and ...
... greatest clerks . Men commonly write more formally than they practice ; and conversing only with books , they fall into affectation and pedantry . He who is made up of the press and the pen shall be sure to be ridiculous . Company and ...
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