The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great Essayists, from Lord Bacon to John Ruskin : with Introduction, Biographical Notices, and Critical NotesW.P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, 1887 |
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... hand , or doing some- what which they are not accustomed ; to the end they may be opposed of those things , which of ... hands , he crooketh them to tives ; as to say , This I do not : as Tigellinus did towards Burrhus , " Se non ...
... hand , or doing some- what which they are not accustomed ; to the end they may be opposed of those things , which of ... hands , he crooketh them to tives ; as to say , This I do not : as Tigellinus did towards Burrhus , " Se non ...
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... hand in it , they think it is they that carry it . They that are glorious must needs be factious ; for all bravery stands upon comparisons . They must needs be violent to make good their own vaunts neither can they be secret , and ...
... hand in it , they think it is they that carry it . They that are glorious must needs be factious ; for all bravery stands upon comparisons . They must needs be violent to make good their own vaunts neither can they be secret , and ...
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... hands and eyes mathematics , and the rules of proportion ; swimming hath saved many a man's life , when himself hath been ... hand , done so lively that the birds , being deceived , flew to peck the grapes . But Zeuxis , in an ingenious ...
... hands and eyes mathematics , and the rules of proportion ; swimming hath saved many a man's life , when himself hath been ... hand , done so lively that the birds , being deceived , flew to peck the grapes . But Zeuxis , in an ingenious ...
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... hand of God . It was not dumb chance that , to discover the fougade , or powder plot , contrived a miscarriage in the letter . I like the victory of '88 the better for that one occurrence which our enemies imputed to our dishonour , and ...
... hand of God . It was not dumb chance that , to discover the fougade , or powder plot , contrived a miscarriage in the letter . I like the victory of '88 the better for that one occurrence which our enemies imputed to our dishonour , and ...
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... hand to destroy us , and we are beholden unto every one we meet , he doth not kill us . There is therefore but one comfort left , that though it be in the power of the weakest arm t take away life , it is not in the strongest to de ...
... hand to destroy us , and we are beholden unto every one we meet , he doth not kill us . There is therefore but one comfort left , that though it be in the power of the weakest arm t take away life , it is not in the strongest to de ...
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