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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... sure that all who saw his first book shall come to read his last . A spite- ful pen picks out only the vices and corruptions of men , and leaves their virtues buried and untouched , which , if justly attended to , might be found to ...
... sure that all who saw his first book shall come to read his last . A spite- ful pen picks out only the vices and corruptions of men , and leaves their virtues buried and untouched , which , if justly attended to , might be found to ...
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... sure to be ridiculous . Company and conversation are the best instructors for a noble behavior . What we learn in the study is mostly from imagination and fancy . And how airy must they needs be , who are composed wholly of the fumes ...
... sure to be ridiculous . Company and conversation are the best instructors for a noble behavior . What we learn in the study is mostly from imagination and fancy . And how airy must they needs be , who are composed wholly of the fumes ...
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... sure to meet with vexation enough which we cannot avoid . I cannot think any man loves sorrow so well as , in his discretion , to invite it to dwell in his heart . Did not Pompey do well to commit those letters to the fire before he ...
... sure to meet with vexation enough which we cannot avoid . I cannot think any man loves sorrow so well as , in his discretion , to invite it to dwell in his heart . Did not Pompey do well to commit those letters to the fire before he ...
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... sure expression of a well - composed soul . Our wild passions are like so many lawyers , wrangling and bawling at the bar . Discretion is the lord keeper of man , who sits as judge and moderates their contentions . Too great a spirit in ...
... sure expression of a well - composed soul . Our wild passions are like so many lawyers , wrangling and bawling at the bar . Discretion is the lord keeper of man , who sits as judge and moderates their contentions . Too great a spirit in ...
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... sure I have a soul , and am com- manded to keep it from sin . O thou , the God of that little god within me , my soul ! let me do that , and I know thou art not such an enemy to ignorance in man , but that thou art better pleased with ...
... sure I have a soul , and am com- manded to keep it from sin . O thou , the God of that little god within me , my soul ! let me do that , and I know thou art not such an enemy to ignorance in man , but that thou art better pleased with ...
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