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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... 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 1465-1536.
... 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 1465-1536.
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... knowledge of the realities of things as Felltham shows in his " Resolves , Divine , Moral , and Political , ” — a work written , it is said , in his eighteenth year . Little is known of his history . He was born at Mutford , in Suffolk ...
... knowledge of the realities of things as Felltham shows in his " Resolves , Divine , Moral , and Political , ” — a work written , it is said , in his eighteenth year . Little is known of his history . He was born at Mutford , in Suffolk ...
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... Knowledge is the treasure of the mind ; but discretion is the key to it , without which it is useless . The practical part of wisdom is the best . A native genius is be- yond industrious study . Wisdom is no inheritance ; no , not to ...
... Knowledge is the treasure of the mind ; but discretion is the key to it , without which it is useless . The practical part of wisdom is the best . A native genius is be- yond industrious study . Wisdom is no inheritance ; no , not to ...
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... 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 . From " Resolves , Divine , Moral , and Political . » THE THAT MAN OUGHT TO BE EXTENSIVELY GOOD ...
... 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 . From " Resolves , Divine , Moral , and Political . » THE THAT MAN OUGHT TO BE EXTENSIVELY GOOD ...
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... knowledge of that which can only occasion me trouble . Why should we not be ashamed to do that which we are ashamed to be caught in doing ? If I hear anything by accident which may benefit me , I will , if I can , profit by it : but I ...
... knowledge of that which can only occasion me trouble . Why should we not be ashamed to do that which we are ashamed to be caught in doing ? If I hear anything by accident which may benefit me , I will , if I can , profit by it : but I ...
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