The World's Best Essays: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volumen2David Josiah Brewer F.P. Kaiser, 1900 |
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... learned the violin and French conversation . » This assertion made by Professor Holland , of Oxford , is no more incredible than is the actual achievement of Bentham's mature intellect , illustrated in the results of his attempts to ...
... learned the violin and French conversation . » This assertion made by Professor Holland , of Oxford , is no more incredible than is the actual achievement of Bentham's mature intellect , illustrated in the results of his attempts to ...
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... learned from them . Montaigne's " Essays " owe their greatest charm to the fact that they reveal not only the secrets of a soul , but of a soul not much raised above the commonplace , and like our own . Such influences as acted upon his ...
... learned from them . Montaigne's " Essays " owe their greatest charm to the fact that they reveal not only the secrets of a soul , but of a soul not much raised above the commonplace , and like our own . Such influences as acted upon his ...
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... learned from Homer that the Scotch fiddle which instructed Burns in melody had in it the soul of Greek poetic art . From the studies of the great masterpieces of Greece , he learned to know and to reverence as sub- lime the simplicity ...
... learned from Homer that the Scotch fiddle which instructed Burns in melody had in it the soul of Greek poetic art . From the studies of the great masterpieces of Greece , he learned to know and to reverence as sub- lime the simplicity ...
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... learned writer compares Isaiah to Homer , Jeremiah to Si- monides , and Ezekiel to Eschylus . Most of the book of Isaiah is strictly poetical ; of Jeremiah and Ezekiel , not above one - half can be held to belong to poetry . Among the ...
... learned writer compares Isaiah to Homer , Jeremiah to Si- monides , and Ezekiel to Eschylus . Most of the book of Isaiah is strictly poetical ; of Jeremiah and Ezekiel , not above one - half can be held to belong to poetry . Among the ...
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... learned , who know this simple fact , or who have ever been startled by the palpable impossibility of the modernizing explanation of the Boar's Head Dinner ! We cannot wonder , therefore , that the restless chasing of the Wild Huntsman ...
... learned , who know this simple fact , or who have ever been startled by the palpable impossibility of the modernizing explanation of the Boar's Head Dinner ! We cannot wonder , therefore , that the restless chasing of the Wild Huntsman ...
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