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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... feeling al- most equal to the temporary extremes and paroxysms of common minds : as a great river , in its customary state , is equal to a small or moderate one when swollen to a torrent . The moment of finishing his plans in ...
... feeling al- most equal to the temporary extremes and paroxysms of common minds : as a great river , in its customary state , is equal to a small or moderate one when swollen to a torrent . The moment of finishing his plans in ...
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... feeling which he could spare to be diverted among the innumerable varieties of the extensive scene which he traversed ; all his subordinate feelings lost their separate existence and oper- ation , by falling into the grand one . There ...
... feeling which he could spare to be diverted among the innumerable varieties of the extensive scene which he traversed ; all his subordinate feelings lost their separate existence and oper- ation , by falling into the grand one . There ...
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... feelings . This would be the proper place for introducing ( if I did not hesitate to introduce in any connection with mere human instances ) the example of him who said , " I must be about my Father's business . My meat and drink is to ...
... feelings . This would be the proper place for introducing ( if I did not hesitate to introduce in any connection with mere human instances ) the example of him who said , " I must be about my Father's business . My meat and drink is to ...
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... feels more pride in being a skeptic , the conqueror of all systems , than he ever felt in being the champion of one , even then , it is very pos- sible he may spring up again , like a vapor of fire from a bog , and glimmer through new ...
... feels more pride in being a skeptic , the conqueror of all systems , than he ever felt in being the champion of one , even then , it is very pos- sible he may spring up again , like a vapor of fire from a bog , and glimmer through new ...
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... one stage of life , I sup- pose all reflecting men look back with a kind of contempt , though it may be often with a mingling wish that some of its enthusiasm - of feeling could be recovered , —I mean the JOHN FOSTER 1757.
... one stage of life , I sup- pose all reflecting men look back with a kind of contempt , though it may be often with a mingling wish that some of its enthusiasm - of feeling could be recovered , —I mean the JOHN FOSTER 1757.
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