The World's Best Essays: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volumen2David Josiah Brewer F.P. Kaiser, 1900 |
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... friendship with their rulers . Some persuade themselves that it is best that a man be illustrious and celebrated , and have good fame ; they therefore seek this both in peace and in war . Many reckon it for the greatest good and for the ...
... friendship with their rulers . Some persuade themselves that it is best that a man be illustrious and celebrated , and have good fame ; they therefore seek this both in peace and in war . Many reckon it for the greatest good and for the ...
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... friends together with inseparable love . But with these worldly goods , and with this present wealth , men make oftener enemies than friends . By these and by many such things it may be evident to all men , that all the bodily goods are ...
... friends together with inseparable love . But with these worldly goods , and with this present wealth , men make oftener enemies than friends . By these and by many such things it may be evident to all men , that all the bodily goods are ...
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... friend of Swift and Pope . His prose style has many of the merits of the best masters of the time of Queen Anne , but lacks the simplicity of Addison . He was greatly celebrated in his generation as an orator , but none of his speeches ...
... friend of Swift and Pope . His prose style has many of the merits of the best masters of the time of Queen Anne , but lacks the simplicity of Addison . He was greatly celebrated in his generation as an orator , but none of his speeches ...
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... friends without asking any- thing from their admiration . His political opinions triumphed for the moment , in a way that surrounded his old age with a popu- larity equal to that of the most vigorous maturity . He had never abandoned ...
... friends without asking any- thing from their admiration . His political opinions triumphed for the moment , in a way that surrounded his old age with a popu- larity equal to that of the most vigorous maturity . He had never abandoned ...
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... friends and relatives to puff you , to record what a splendid fel- low you are , and what wonderful events have befallen you . Even here , if you become known as one of a set who puff each other , your laudations will do harm instead of ...
... friends and relatives to puff you , to record what a splendid fel- low you are , and what wonderful events have befallen you . Even here , if you become known as one of a set who puff each other , your laudations will do harm instead of ...
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