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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... Thoughts " and " Satires >> Happiness and Good - Nature Night in the City GOSSE , WILLIAM EDMUND 1849- 1976 The Tyranny of the Novel GRAND , SARAH Nineteenth Century 1981 Marriage as a Temporary Arrangement X GREELEY , HORACE LIVED PAGE ...
... Thoughts " and " Satires >> Happiness and Good - Nature Night in the City GOSSE , WILLIAM EDMUND 1849- 1976 The Tyranny of the Novel GRAND , SARAH Nineteenth Century 1981 Marriage as a Temporary Arrangement X GREELEY , HORACE LIVED PAGE ...
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... thought either too much or « < too little to be classed with essayists . His " Adages , " which are now more read than his more labored productions , have a reason for their vitality in such vigorous sentences as this : " The people ...
... thought either too much or « < too little to be classed with essayists . His " Adages , " which are now more read than his more labored productions , have a reason for their vitality in such vigorous sentences as this : " The people ...
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... thought of publication » ; others are equally confident that after having found the advantage of the diary as a literary subterfuge , he wrote essays , descriptions , and anecdotes , and dated them to suit the subjects dealt with . In ...
... thought of publication » ; others are equally confident that after having found the advantage of the diary as a literary subterfuge , he wrote essays , descriptions , and anecdotes , and dated them to suit the subjects dealt with . In ...
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... thought to be dug by Nero , a stupen- dous passage , heretofore nobly arched with marble , as the ruins testify . Hence , we walked to those receptacles of water called Piscina Mirabilis , being a vault of five hundred feet long , and ...
... thought to be dug by Nero , a stupen- dous passage , heretofore nobly arched with marble , as the ruins testify . Hence , we walked to those receptacles of water called Piscina Mirabilis , being a vault of five hundred feet long , and ...
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... thoughts and expressions . Decency is the cor- rective of manners ; and even although such works be refined in point of language , yet are they then but as unsavory breaths . perfumed ; there is only a more precious stink , which ...
... thoughts and expressions . Decency is the cor- rective of manners ; and even although such works be refined in point of language , yet are they then but as unsavory breaths . perfumed ; there is only a more precious stink , which ...
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