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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... least caution is necessary to be given of such books ; for man will no more dwell in one of these than a traveler of quality will lodge in an alehouse or a booth . It was Cicero who said , Lectionem sine ulla delectatione negligo , - he ...
... least caution is necessary to be given of such books ; for man will no more dwell in one of these than a traveler of quality will lodge in an alehouse or a booth . It was Cicero who said , Lectionem sine ulla delectatione negligo , - he ...
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... least . Two things are commonly blamed in poetry , and these are lies and flattery ; but it is only to the shallow understanding that they appear thus . Truth may dwell more clearly in an allegory , or a moral fable , than in a bare ...
... least . Two things are commonly blamed in poetry , and these are lies and flattery ; but it is only to the shallow understanding that they appear thus . Truth may dwell more clearly in an allegory , or a moral fable , than in a bare ...
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... least beholden to nature . I know not anything wherein they can be more unfortunate . They enjoy nothing with- out an affrighted mind ; no , not so much as their sleep ; they doubt what they have done , lest it may hurt them ; they ...
... least beholden to nature . I know not anything wherein they can be more unfortunate . They enjoy nothing with- out an affrighted mind ; no , not so much as their sleep ; they doubt what they have done , lest it may hurt them ; they ...
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... least in some circumstance , though excusable in the most important . I know calumny and conjecture may injure innocence itself . In matters of censure , nothing but a certain knowledge should make us give a certain judgment ; for fame ...
... least in some circumstance , though excusable in the most important . I know calumny and conjecture may injure innocence itself . In matters of censure , nothing but a certain knowledge should make us give a certain judgment ; for fame ...
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... least concern about what he was saying ; upon this he began to sing , and the people then crowding about him he at once seized the opportunity to give them a severe reprimand , that they would flock around him and attend with eagerness ...
... least concern about what he was saying ; upon this he began to sing , and the people then crowding about him he at once seized the opportunity to give them a severe reprimand , that they would flock around him and attend with eagerness ...
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