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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... pass good laws for kings to violate ; the people love peace , but their rulers stir up war . " The same spirit governs " The Praises of Folly , ” — a work in which , while he never completely attains the essayist's method , he opens the ...
... pass good laws for kings to violate ; the people love peace , but their rulers stir up war . " The same spirit governs " The Praises of Folly , ” — a work in which , while he never completely attains the essayist's method , he opens the ...
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... passing you on the road to preferment ! Some of you , again , it may be , have formed an intention of entering at some time or another of your lives into the condition of matrimony . And a very good intention too . However , a need- ful ...
... passing you on the road to preferment ! Some of you , again , it may be , have formed an intention of entering at some time or another of your lives into the condition of matrimony . And a very good intention too . However , a need- ful ...
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... pass a fair fountain , called Labulla , which contin- ually boils , supposed to proceed from Vesuvius , and thence over a river and bridge , where , on a large upright stone , is engraven a notable inscription relative to the memorable ...
... pass a fair fountain , called Labulla , which contin- ually boils , supposed to proceed from Vesuvius , and thence over a river and bridge , where , on a large upright stone , is engraven a notable inscription relative to the memorable ...
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... pass in triumph . Here we rowed along towards a villa of the orator Cicero , where we were showed the ruins of his Academy ; and , at the foot of a rock , his Baths , the waters reciprocating their tides with the neighboring sea . Hard ...
... pass in triumph . Here we rowed along towards a villa of the orator Cicero , where we were showed the ruins of his Academy ; and , at the foot of a rock , his Baths , the waters reciprocating their tides with the neighboring sea . Hard ...
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... pass a narrow entry which leads us into a room of about ten paces long , pro- portionably broad and high ; the side walls and roof retain still the golden mosaic , though now exceedingly decayed by time . Here is a short cell , or ...
... pass a narrow entry which leads us into a room of about ten paces long , pro- portionably broad and high ; the side walls and roof retain still the golden mosaic , though now exceedingly decayed by time . Here is a short cell , or ...
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