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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Página 1765
... Civilization has engendered this and so many similar calamities , may it not engender others which we do not now foresee ? The most imminent of these is the birth of a Commercial Feudalism , or the Monopoly of Commerce and Industry by ...
... Civilization has engendered this and so many similar calamities , may it not engender others which we do not now foresee ? The most imminent of these is the birth of a Commercial Feudalism , or the Monopoly of Commerce and Industry by ...
Página 1768
... civilization and their correctives at our ease . It is then that we may amuse ourselves with an analysis of the Civi- lized mechanism , which is the most curious of all , since it is that in which there is the greatest complication and ...
... civilization and their correctives at our ease . It is then that we may amuse ourselves with an analysis of the Civi- lized mechanism , which is the most curious of all , since it is that in which there is the greatest complication and ...
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... civilization , are interesting ; but they are not the most interesting . They have their reward in the increase of material comforts ; but , unless we are mistaken about our nature , they do not highly concern us after all . Once more ...
... civilization , are interesting ; but they are not the most interesting . They have their reward in the increase of material comforts ; but , unless we are mistaken about our nature , they do not highly concern us after all . Once more ...
Página 1882
... civilization which the princelings and squirelings of his day regarded as treason- able . His greatest works are his " Shakespeare , " " History of Ger- man Literature , " and " History of German Poetry . " He died March 18th , 1871 . W ...
... civilization which the princelings and squirelings of his day regarded as treason- able . His greatest works are his " Shakespeare , " " History of Ger- man Literature , " and " History of German Poetry . " He died March 18th , 1871 . W ...
Página 1884
... civilization , as a source even of power and action ; and the poetic generations of succeeding times conceived it only from this its ennobling side , and this with a preference and exclusiveness which such a judge of life as Shakespeare ...
... civilization , as a source even of power and action ; and the poetic generations of succeeding times conceived it only from this its ennobling side , and this with a preference and exclusiveness which such a judge of life as Shakespeare ...
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