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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... feeling himself burdened by age , he put an end to his life by holding his breath . His friends discovering him the next day muffled up in his cloak doubted at first whether he were not asleep ; but being soon convinced that he was dead ...
... feeling himself burdened by age , he put an end to his life by holding his breath . His friends discovering him the next day muffled up in his cloak doubted at first whether he were not asleep ; but being soon convinced that he was dead ...
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... feeling , for they are incidents of my nature , and I am and remain natural here below . But they shall not trouble me . They affect only the Nature , with which I am , in some strange way , connected ; not myself , the being which is ...
... feeling , for they are incidents of my nature , and I am and remain natural here below . But they shall not trouble me . They affect only the Nature , with which I am , in some strange way , connected ; not myself , the being which is ...
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... feeling sad regrets , and without longing for wings in order to take flight and be blended with them , or be lost amid their immortal light ? " In the midst of darkness our eyes gaze freely on the sky , piercing the deep azure of the ...
... feeling sad regrets , and without longing for wings in order to take flight and be blended with them , or be lost amid their immortal light ? " In the midst of darkness our eyes gaze freely on the sky , piercing the deep azure of the ...
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... feels itself hu- miliated and perplexed , which it contemplates with fear , and without the power to face them , although it understands their existence and necessity : such are those of the infinity of space and eternity of duration ...
... feels itself hu- miliated and perplexed , which it contemplates with fear , and without the power to face them , although it understands their existence and necessity : such are those of the infinity of space and eternity of duration ...
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... feeling for the poetry of the past , of ruins and of antiquity , when notwithstanding every rightly con- servative sentiment , we rise palpitating at the call of social mis- ery and injustice , to tell of the woes of the afflicted and ...
... feeling for the poetry of the past , of ruins and of antiquity , when notwithstanding every rightly con- servative sentiment , we rise palpitating at the call of social mis- ery and injustice , to tell of the woes of the afflicted and ...
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