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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... present cure , but overthroweth your health in some other kind , and so cure the disease and kill the patient . But a friend that is wholly acquainted with a man's estate , will beware by furthering any present business how he dasheth ...
... present cure , but overthroweth your health in some other kind , and so cure the disease and kill the patient . But a friend that is wholly acquainted with a man's estate , will beware by furthering any present business how he dasheth ...
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... present occasion with arguments ; tales with reasons ; asking of ques- tions with telling of opinions ; and jest with earnest ; for it is a dull thing to tire , and , as we say now , to jade anything too far . As for jest , there be ...
... present occasion with arguments ; tales with reasons ; asking of ques- tions with telling of opinions ; and jest with earnest ; for it is a dull thing to tire , and , as we say now , to jade anything too far . As for jest , there be ...
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... present fortune , till they can provide a new one , and betake them- selves to some more gainful calling . Thirdly , They are disheartened from doing their best with the miserable reward which in some places they receive , being masters ...
... present fortune , till they can provide a new one , and betake them- selves to some more gainful calling . Thirdly , They are disheartened from doing their best with the miserable reward which in some places they receive , being masters ...
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... present disposition of the age allowed more probability of bringing it into execution . What I have further to say of the country life , shall be borrowed from the poets , who were always the most faithful and affection- ate friends to ...
... present disposition of the age allowed more probability of bringing it into execution . What I have further to say of the country life , shall be borrowed from the poets , who were always the most faithful and affection- ate friends to ...
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... present ; conceive that near which may be far off . Approximate thy latter times by present apprehensions of them : be like a neighbour unto death , and think there is but little to come . And since there is something in us that must ...
... present ; conceive that near which may be far off . Approximate thy latter times by present apprehensions of them : be like a neighbour unto death , and think there is but little to come . And since there is something in us that must ...
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