The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volumen5David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler F.P. Kaiser, 1900 - 4190 páginas |
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... becomes the pulpit . I admire the valor of some men who , before their studies , dare ascend the pulpit ; and do there take more pains than they have done in their library . But having done this , I wonder not that they there spend ...
... becomes the pulpit . I admire the valor of some men who , before their studies , dare ascend the pulpit ; and do there take more pains than they have done in their library . But having done this , I wonder not that they there spend ...
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... his importunity , Antisthenes yielded , and permitted him to become his scholar . Banished from his native country , and without resources , 1699 FENELON, FRANÇOIS DE SALIGNAC DE LA MOTHE 1651-1715 Memorabilia of Diogenes.
... his importunity , Antisthenes yielded , and permitted him to become his scholar . Banished from his native country , and without resources , 1699 FENELON, FRANÇOIS DE SALIGNAC DE LA MOTHE 1651-1715 Memorabilia of Diogenes.
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... becoming food for birds of prey and wild beasts ? » " Then I must have my stick with me , " said Diogenes , " to drive them away when they come . " " But , " resumed the other " you will be devoid of all sensation . " " If that be the ...
... becoming food for birds of prey and wild beasts ? » " Then I must have my stick with me , " said Diogenes , " to drive them away when they come . " " But , " resumed the other " you will be devoid of all sensation . " " If that be the ...
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... become uncouth , does not lie against him , for the earnest- ness of his love for truth , his depth of admiration for the sublime and beautiful in morals and in nature , molds his sentences into har- mony , and adds to his metaphysics ...
... become uncouth , does not lie against him , for the earnest- ness of his love for truth , his depth of admiration for the sublime and beautiful in morals and in nature , molds his sentences into har- mony , and adds to his metaphysics ...
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... become , to the hearer , either empty declamation , or else a mere air castle , producing , indeed , for the moment an æs- thetic pleasure , but containing within itself no true ground of persistence ; and this is the reason why we ...
... become , to the hearer , either empty declamation , or else a mere air castle , producing , indeed , for the moment an æs- thetic pleasure , but containing within itself no true ground of persistence ; and this is the reason why we ...
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admiration Antisthenes appears Attic Nights beauty become better born called cause century character Chrysippus civilization Complete Cotton Mather death desire Diogenes Divine dress earth enemy England English Epictetus Epicurus essays evil existence expression eyes father feeling fool friends genius give Goethe greatest Greek happiness hath heart heaven honor human idea infinite kind king labor Lacedæmonia lady Laocoon laws learned less live Lord Byron Margaret Roper marriage matter means mind moral nations Natural Law nature never ourselves passion perhaps person philosophy Plato pleasure Plutarch poet poetry political Poor Richard says principle reason ruin seems Socrates soul speak spirit sure Tacitus things THOMAS DUDLEY THOMAS FULLER thou thought Thucydides tion true truth universe virtue whole Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship wise words writing