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 |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 68
Página 1652
... hand , ren- ders men nervously timid of bold adventures , and therefore deters them from all sorts of projects which would result in their gain . The consequence is that , as a rule , you find wise men ek- ing out a miserable existence ...
... hand , ren- ders men nervously timid of bold adventures , and therefore deters them from all sorts of projects which would result in their gain . The consequence is that , as a rule , you find wise men ek- ing out a miserable existence ...
Página 1655
... hands , not without many untoward slips which did much bruise us on the various colored cinders with which the whole mountain is covered , some like pitch , others full of perfect brimstone , others metallic , interspersed with ...
... hands , not without many untoward slips which did much bruise us on the various colored cinders with which the whole mountain is covered , some like pitch , others full of perfect brimstone , others metallic , interspersed with ...
Página 1656
... hand of which they showed us Virgil's sepulchre erected on a steep rock , in form of a small rotunda , or cupolated column , but almost overgrown with bushes and wild bay trees . At the entrance is this inscription : - Stanisi Cencovius ...
... hand of which they showed us Virgil's sepulchre erected on a steep rock , in form of a small rotunda , or cupolated column , but almost overgrown with bushes and wild bay trees . At the entrance is this inscription : - Stanisi Cencovius ...
Página 1657
... hands . This mountain is exceedingly fruitful in vines , and exot- ics grow readily . We now came to a lake , of about two miles in circumference , environed with hills ; the water of it is fresh and sweet on the surface , but salt at ...
... hands . This mountain is exceedingly fruitful in vines , and exot- ics grow readily . We now came to a lake , of about two miles in circumference , environed with hills ; the water of it is fresh and sweet on the surface , but salt at ...
Página 1659
... hand rises Mount Gaurus , being , as I conceived , nothing save a heap of pumices , which here float in abundance on the sea , exhausted of all in- flammable matter by the fire , which renders them light and por- ous , so as the beds of ...
... hand rises Mount Gaurus , being , as I conceived , nothing save a heap of pumices , which here float in abundance on the sea , exhausted of all in- flammable matter by the fire , which renders them light and por- ous , so as the beds of ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
admiration Antisthenes appears Attic Nights beauty become better born called cause century character Chrysippus civilization Complete Cotton Mather death desire Diogenes Divine dress earth enemy England English Epictetus Epicurus essays evil existence expression eyes father feeling fool friends genius give Goethe greatest Greek happiness hath heart heaven honor human idea infinite kind king labor Lacedæmonia lady Laocoon laws learned less live Lord Byron Margaret Roper marriage matter means mind moral nations Natural Law nature never ourselves passion perhaps person philosophy Plato pleasure Plutarch poet poetry political Poor Richard says principle reason ruin seems Socrates soul speak spirit sure Tacitus things THOMAS DUDLEY THOMAS FULLER thou thought Thucydides tion true truth universe virtue whole Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship wise words writing