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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... pleasure in our lives , and how can we so live as to become ourselves divine ? These questions Epictetus answered very simply , and at least as satisfactorily as they have been answered by any one else . To him there is nothing good but ...
... pleasure in our lives , and how can we so live as to become ourselves divine ? These questions Epictetus answered very simply , and at least as satisfactorily as they have been answered by any one else . To him there is nothing good but ...
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... pleasure is made the object of life , it is not unjust to him to say that he makes self - satisfaction his supreme good rather than achievement . " Questi sciaurati che mai non fur vivi » – " Wretches who never were alive , " Dante ...
... pleasure is made the object of life , it is not unjust to him to say that he makes self - satisfaction his supreme good rather than achievement . " Questi sciaurati che mai non fur vivi » – " Wretches who never were alive , " Dante ...
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... pleasure ; for all these things are mere pageantry , shadows gilded , and ridiculous dreams , insomuch as fear and care are not things that are afraid of the noise of arms , or regard the brightness of gold , or the splendor of purple ...
... pleasure ; for all these things are mere pageantry , shadows gilded , and ridiculous dreams , insomuch as fear and care are not things that are afraid of the noise of arms , or regard the brightness of gold , or the splendor of purple ...
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... pleasure dwelt . There is another kind of books . which are wanton and licentious , and these like rank flesh un- salted carry a taint which poisons . It is true , wit is in general readier at such productions than at any other ; yet ...
... pleasure dwelt . There is another kind of books . which are wanton and licentious , and these like rank flesh un- salted carry a taint which poisons . It is true , wit is in general readier at such productions than at any other ; yet ...
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... pleasure in it , even when he wrote his " Tristia . " I would not follow poetry as a profession , and I would not want it as a recreation . Complete . From « Resolves , Divine , Moral , and Political . » OF WISDOM AND SCIENCE EARNING ...
... pleasure in it , even when he wrote his " Tristia . " I would not follow poetry as a profession , and I would not want it as a recreation . Complete . From « Resolves , Divine , Moral , and Political . » OF WISDOM AND SCIENCE EARNING ...
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