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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... things , he , loyal to his youthful hope , stood aloof , hating them almost as renegades , and never ceasing to give utterance to his despair . These men wrote in a period of unexampled literary activity , and in the thick of stupendous ...
... things , he , loyal to his youthful hope , stood aloof , hating them almost as renegades , and never ceasing to give utterance to his despair . These men wrote in a period of unexampled literary activity , and in the thick of stupendous ...
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... things , but one and indivisible . lamp by which he reads his features . And then he so apportions praise and blame ; so sets off the jocose and familiar with a moral solemnity ; makes anecdote , and detail of dress , and allusion to ...
... things , but one and indivisible . lamp by which he reads his features . And then he so apportions praise and blame ; so sets off the jocose and familiar with a moral solemnity ; makes anecdote , and detail of dress , and allusion to ...
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... things ; full of melancholy and indisposition , and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers , in great severity , called * “ His philosophical genius , and the force of his lan - poesy , " vinum dæmonum ; " because it filleth the ...
... things ; full of melancholy and indisposition , and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers , in great severity , called * “ His philosophical genius , and the force of his lan - poesy , " vinum dæmonum ; " because it filleth the ...
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... things , unity and uniformity . The other is , when the matter of the point controverted is great ; but it is driven to an over - great subtilty and obscurity ; so that it becometh a thing rather ingenious than sub- stantial . A man ...
... things , unity and uniformity . The other is , when the matter of the point controverted is great ; but it is driven to an over - great subtilty and obscurity ; so that it becometh a thing rather ingenious than sub- stantial . A man ...
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... things which belong to prosperity are to be wished , but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired : " Bona rerum secundarum optabilia , adversarum mirabilia . " Certainly if miracles be the command over nature , they ...
... things which belong to prosperity are to be wished , but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired : " Bona rerum secundarum optabilia , adversarum mirabilia . " Certainly if miracles be the command over nature , they ...
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