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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... pleasure , as with poets ; nor for advantage , as with the merchant ; but for the lie's sake . But I cannot tell this same truth is a naked and open day - light , that doth not show the masks , and mummeries , and triumphs of the world ...
... pleasure , as with poets ; nor for advantage , as with the merchant ; but for the lie's sake . But I cannot tell this same truth is a naked and open day - light , that doth not show the masks , and mummeries , and triumphs of the world ...
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... pleasure to stand upon the shore , and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle , and to see a battle , and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the ...
... pleasure to stand upon the shore , and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle , and to see a battle , and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the ...
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... pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye . Certainly virtue is like precious odours , most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best dis- cover vice , but adversity doth best discover virtue . * " The ...
... pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye . Certainly virtue is like precious odours , most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best dis- cover vice , but adversity doth best discover virtue . * " The ...
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... pleasure in solitude , but out of a love and desire to sequester a man's self for a higher conversation : such as is found to have been falsely and feignedly in some of the heathen ; as Epimenides the Candian , Numa the Roman ...
... pleasure in solitude , but out of a love and desire to sequester a man's self for a higher conversation : such as is found to have been falsely and feignedly in some of the heathen ; as Epimenides the Candian , Numa the Roman ...
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... pleasures , profit , or preferment , desired to be excused from death's banquet ; they had made an appointment with ... pleasure , how can he be found unready to quit the veil and false visage of his perfection ? The soul having shaken ...
... pleasures , profit , or preferment , desired to be excused from death's banquet ; they had made an appointment with ... pleasure , how can he be found unready to quit the veil and false visage of his perfection ? The soul having shaken ...
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