The World's Best Essays: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volumen2David Josiah Brewer F.P. Kaiser, 1900 |
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... heaven . Only vulgar natures employ their superiority to task and burden . weaker natures . He whose genius and wisdom are but instru- ments of oppression , however covered and softened with lying names , is the beginning of a monster ...
... heaven . Only vulgar natures employ their superiority to task and burden . weaker natures . He whose genius and wisdom are but instru- ments of oppression , however covered and softened with lying names , is the beginning of a monster ...
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... Heaven forbid that I should seek to compress the great Doctor within any narrower limits than my metaphor requires ! ) , when he wrote that a book should teach us either to enjoy life or endure it . " Give us enjoyment ! " " Teach us ...
... Heaven forbid that I should seek to compress the great Doctor within any narrower limits than my metaphor requires ! ) , when he wrote that a book should teach us either to enjoy life or endure it . " Give us enjoyment ! " " Teach us ...
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... heaven uses to wake the soul of such a singer as Homer , they and their works are condemned to the limbo of the second - hand dealer's backrooms , a limbo from which those who do not fear learned dust may rescue them at a shilling a ...
... heaven uses to wake the soul of such a singer as Homer , they and their works are condemned to the limbo of the second - hand dealer's backrooms , a limbo from which those who do not fear learned dust may rescue them at a shilling a ...
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... Heaven . Isaiah is , without exception , the most sublime of all poets . This is abundantly visible in our translation ; and what is a material circumstance , none of the books of Scripture appear to have been more happily translated ...
... Heaven . Isaiah is , without exception , the most sublime of all poets . This is abundantly visible in our translation ; and what is a material circumstance , none of the books of Scripture appear to have been more happily translated ...
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... heavens , and his head reach the clouds , yet he shall perish forever . He shall fly away as a dream , and shall not be found ; yea , he shall be chased away as a vision of the night . The eye also which saw him shall see him no more ...
... heavens , and his head reach the clouds , yet he shall perish forever . He shall fly away as a dream , and shall not be found ; yea , he shall be chased away as a vision of the night . The eye also which saw him shall see him no more ...
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