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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... character or the ideal of its parents . It may even revert by atavism to some far distant type wholly alien from that of its immediate progenitors ; and , in any case , our children , like all other human beings , are as someone has ...
... character or the ideal of its parents . It may even revert by atavism to some far distant type wholly alien from that of its immediate progenitors ; and , in any case , our children , like all other human beings , are as someone has ...
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... character , at best , who deals in licentious thoughts and expressions . Decency is the cor- rective of manners ; and even although such works be refined in point of language , yet are they then but as unsavory breaths . perfumed ...
... character , at best , who deals in licentious thoughts and expressions . Decency is the cor- rective of manners ; and even although such works be refined in point of language , yet are they then but as unsavory breaths . perfumed ...
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... character of a god stamped in it , and the apprehension of eternity , all prove it to be a shoot of everlastingness . Those who say that the soul is not immortal , yet that it is good for men to think it so , thereby to awe them from ...
... character of a god stamped in it , and the apprehension of eternity , all prove it to be a shoot of everlastingness . Those who say that the soul is not immortal , yet that it is good for men to think it so , thereby to awe them from ...
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... characters ranged in an order I did not contrive , and of which chance could not be the author . For I never had the least thought either of writing anything in my brain , or to place in any order the images and characters I imprinted ...
... characters ranged in an order I did not contrive , and of which chance could not be the author . For I never had the least thought either of writing anything in my brain , or to place in any order the images and characters I imprinted ...
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... characters move through the whole plot with def- inite and distinct individualities towards a conclusion , planned in advance as carefully as the climax of a drama , and developing by apparent necessity from every act , even the most ...
... characters move through the whole plot with def- inite and distinct individualities towards a conclusion , planned in advance as carefully as the climax of a drama , and developing by apparent necessity from every act , even the most ...
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