The World's Best Essays: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volumen2David Josiah Brewer F.P. Kaiser, 1900 |
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... kind who dared to deceive them and drag them , docile and ignorant , to worship at such altars . By presenting to them ob- jects that lay beyond the scope of sense and fled from their grasp the nearer they seemed to approach them ...
... kind who dared to deceive them and drag them , docile and ignorant , to worship at such altars . By presenting to them ob- jects that lay beyond the scope of sense and fled from their grasp the nearer they seemed to approach them ...
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... kind teaching , stand unabashed , and not ashamed , in the very royalty of heaven . Only vulgar natures employ their superiority to task and burden . weaker natures . He whose genius and wisdom are but instru- ments of oppression ...
... kind teaching , stand unabashed , and not ashamed , in the very royalty of heaven . Only vulgar natures employ their superiority to task and burden . weaker natures . He whose genius and wisdom are but instru- ments of oppression ...
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... kind , or even of the effectually defensive kind , and that intended to be in any manner employed against himself . But on his part this conception is not a necessary , nor altogether certain one . Against depredation and oppression ...
... kind , or even of the effectually defensive kind , and that intended to be in any manner employed against himself . But on his part this conception is not a necessary , nor altogether certain one . Against depredation and oppression ...
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... kind are hardly to be esteemed pleasures , much less natural pleasures . It is evident that a desire terminated in money is fantastical ; so is the desire of outward distinctions , which bring no delight of sense , nor recommend us as ...
... kind are hardly to be esteemed pleasures , much less natural pleasures . It is evident that a desire terminated in money is fantastical ; so is the desire of outward distinctions , which bring no delight of sense , nor recommend us as ...
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... kind people who sit in them gaily attired only to please me . I have a real , and they only an imaginary pleasure , from their exterior embellish- ments . Upon the same principle , I have discovered that I am . the natural proprietor of ...
... kind people who sit in them gaily attired only to please me . I have a real , and they only an imaginary pleasure , from their exterior embellish- ments . Upon the same principle , I have discovered that I am . the natural proprietor of ...
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